Vocab Notebook Sem 1

Impassioned

Filled with passion or zeal; showing great warmth or intensity of feeling

Imperturbable

Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

Querulous

Habitually complaining

Lampoon

To criticize a famous person or public organization in a piece of writing, drawing, etc, in a humorous way, allowing their/its bad qualities to be seen, and making them/it seem stupid.

Adroit

Having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations

Ascetic

Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

Despondent

Feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression

Boorish

Resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person

Extremist

Someone who has beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable

Prosperity

The condition of being successful or thriving

Creed

A set of fundamental beliefs

Wage

To engage in or carry on

Pristine

Not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted

Inception

An act, process, or instance of beginning

Prevail

To gain ascendancy through strength or superiority

Benevolent

Marked by or disposed to doing good

Blunders

A gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness

Fanatic

A person exhibiting excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion toward some controversial matter

Veritable

Being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary

Great quantity; lavish display or supply

Profusion

Specious

Having a false look of truth or genuineness

Sensuous

Producing or characterized by the senses

Immemorial

Extending or existing beyond the memory, record, or tradition

Forthright

Free from ambiguity or evasiveness

Suffuse

To spread over or through in the manner at fluid or light

Teeter

To move unsteadily

Asunder

Into parts

Squander

To spend extravagantly or foolishly

Embittered

Very angry about unfair things that have happened to you

Repugnant

Exciting distaste or aversion

Incorrigible

Incapable of being corrected or amended

Decry

To express strong disapproval of

Implicate

To bring into intimate or incriminating context

Repentance

The act or process of turning from sin and dedicating oneself to amendments to one’s life.

Blight

To affect (a plant) with a disease or injury marked by the formation of lesions, withering, death of parts

Fiendish

Perversely diabolical

Afflicted

Grievously affected or troubled

Spectral

Of, relating to, or suggesting a specter; ghostly

Dubious

Questionable or suspect as to true nature or quality

Scapegoat

A person who is blamed for something that someone else has done

Overzealous

Excessively eager, enthusiastic

Reverence

Honor or respect felt or shown

Rapturous

Showing extreme pleasure and happiness or excitemen

Commend

To formally praise someone or something

Prevail

To gain ascendancy through strength or superiority

Outset

Beginning, start

Valiant

Possessing or acting with bravery or boldness

Conventional

Traditional and ordinary

Patronizing

Showing or characterized by a superior attitude towards others

Abject

Sunk to or existing in a low state/condition

Dispossess

To put out of possession or vacancy

Catastrophe

A suddent event that causes very great trouble or destruction

Refurbish

To brighten or freshen up

Malign

To say false and unpleasant thinks about someone

Affluent

Having an abundance of goods or riches

Languorous

Mentally or physically tired or not active in a way that feels or looks pleasant

Amorphous

Having no definite form

Portents

Something that foreshadows a coming event

Confounding

Baffling or perplexing

Unconscionable

Shockingly unfair or unjust

Proclivity

An indication or predisposition toward something

Boorish

Resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person

Flagrant

Obviously offensive

Perfunctory

Lacking in interest or enthusiasm

Environ

Encircle, surround

Gainsay

To declare to be untrue or invalid

Meager

Lacking desirable qualities

Antiquated

Outmoded or discredited by reason of age

Grotesque

Fanciful; bizarre

Vestige

The smallest quantity or trace

Histrionic

Deliberately affected; theatrical

Precocious

Exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age

Salient

Standing out conspicuously; prominent

Astonishing

Causing a feeling of great surprise or wonder

Propound

To offer for discussion or consideration

Reconfigure

To rearrange into an altered form, figure, shape, layout

Invigorating

Having an enlivening or stimulating effect

Inviolable

Secure from violation or profanation

Unscrupulous

Behaving in a dishonest or unfair way to get what one wants; unprincipled

Bereft

Lacking or deprived of something