APLANG Vocab 5

Accure

Grow by addition

Affinity

Natural attraction

Ameliorate

Get better or to make better

Anhydrous

Without water

Ascendant

Most powerful or influential; tending or directed upward

au courant

 Aware of what is going on; well informed

Bastion

A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several direction

Broach

A decorative pin worn by women

Cantankerous

Having a difficulty and contrary disposition

Churlish

Having a bad disposition such as being rude and boorish

Cogent

Powerfully persuasive

Conglomerate

Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass

Corporeal

Having material or physical form or substance

Defalcate

Appropriate or fraudulently to one’s own use

Defoliate

Deprived of leaves (from plants)

Desuetude

A state of inactivity or disuse

Dilatory

Wasting time; inclined to waste time and lag behind

Effrontery

Audacious behavior that you have no right to

Emaciated

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Ephemeral

Lasting a very short time

Erudite

Having or showing great knowledge or learning

Facetious

Cleverly amusing tone

Exult

Feel extreme happiness or elation

Fiat

A legally binding command or decision entered in the court record

Firmament

The apparent surface of this imagery sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Gambit

A clever action in a game or a situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking risk

Frowzy

Negligent of neatness especially in a dress and person

Gingerly

With extreme care or delicacy

Hedonist

Someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

Impervious

Unable to be affected by