Vocab Week #4

Exalt

Exalt

(verb) to glorify

Exult

(verb) to celebrate

Lugubrious

(adj.) Looking or sounding sad and dismal

Insatiable

(adj) Incapable of being satisfied

Assuage

(verb) to sooth; to relieve

Avarice

(noun) greed; excessive desire for riches

Lampoon

(verb) Publicly criticize using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.

Ravenous

(adj.) Extremely hungry

Lethargy

(noun) sluggish; laziness

Recondite

(adj) hard to understand; over one's head

Cajole

(verb) To persuade or coax by using flattery or compliments

Coerce

(verb) To compel using force and power

Assiduous

(adj) hardworking; busy

Litany

(noun) A long list often presented through rote memorization

Penurious

(adj) stingy, relating to great poverty

Ethereal

(adj) Of or relating to the regions beyond the earth; otherworldly

Insuperable

(adj) Incapable of being overcome or solved

Extraneous

(adj) Irrelevant; unnecessary

Avid

(adj) Showing a keen interest in something

Conspicuous

(adj) standing out; obvious