Week 9 SLA Vocab

Onerous

difficult or burdensome

Alacrity

promptness and eagerness

Pith

the essential substance of something

Paucity

scarcity, poverty

Perfidy

treachery or deceit

Plummet

to fall quickly and far

Platitude

a trite or cliché statement

Esoteric

obscure, arcane

Enervate

to exhaust or drain of energy

Dilettante

someone with amateur, nonserious interest in something

Probity

integrity and honor

Cogent

clearly laid out and persuasive

Castigate

to scold or berate strongly

Recondite

arcane or obscure

Repudiate

to renounce or disown

Artless

without artifice or natural, untrained

Sedulous

dedicated and careful

Assuage

to provide relief from an unpleasant feeling or to satisfy a need or appetite

Superbly

excellently

Disseminate

to spread widely

Supine

laying back with the face upward

Frugal

economical, thrifty

Glib

talking volubly, but carelessly or insincerely

Untenable

weak or unsupportable, especially with respect to an opinion or situation

Verbose

long-winded, loquacious