Week 25/26 Vocab

Protean

(adj) capable of quickly assuming many forms, versatile

Pugnacious

(adj) belligerent, always ready for a fight, quarrelsome

Pulchritude

(n) beauty

Purgative

(adj/n) cleaning, cathartic

Pusillanimous

(adj) cowardly, third

Quaver

(v) to tremble, to sing or speak tremulously

Quell

(v) to supress, to allay, to quiet

Quiescent

(adj) at rest, inactive

Quintessence

(n) the essential part

Quixotic

(adj) impratical, visionary

Quizzical

(adj) indicating gentle amusements, somewhat puzzled

Raconteur

(n) a skilled teller of anecdotes, an interesting storyteller

Raffish

(adj) low class, crude, rakish, disreputable

Rancor

(n) bitter, tankling resentment and ill will

Rapacious

(adj) greedy, grasping, ready to seize whatever one can

Recalcitrant

(adj) unmanageable, resisting authority and hard to deal with

Recidivism

(n) repeated habitual back sliding, relapse

Recondite

(adj) hard to understand, profound, requiring high intelligence to grasp

Regale

(v) to entertain lavishly, to amuse or delight

Querulous

(adj) constantly complaining, grumbling