English 12 - Vocab Words (81-100)

Farcical

very silly, absurdly funny, not likely to happen in reality

Fidelity

to be faithful to a person, loyal, honest or lasting support

Haphazard

lacking preparation, not having an obvious plan

Hazardous

dangerous in relation to health and safety

Hierarchy

a system in which people or things are arranged in accordance to importance; people in the upper levels of an organization who can control it

Holocaust

a very large amount of destruction, the killing of millions of Jews by Nazis during WWII

Imminent

coming or likely to happen very soon

Impenetrable

impossible to see through or go through

Impoverish

to make someone or an area very poor

Inaudible

unable to be heard

Indolent

being lazy or showing no real interest or effort

Intangible

impossible to touch

Jettison

to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed from an aircraft or ship

Lamentable

feeling great sorrow for something, deserving severe criticism, very bad

Machination

a complicated and secret plan, plot, or scheme to get power or control

Maudlin

excessively sentimental, emotional, feeling sorry for yourself

Meagre

small amounts, insufficient, not enough

Melancholy

deep sadness, sadness that lasts for a long period of time without any reason

Mercenary

Motivated by money, interested only in the amount of money that you can get from a situation

Misapprehension

a failure to understand something or an understanding or belief about something that is not correct

Nonchalance

the state of being relaxed or calm in a way that shows they do not care or are not worried about something

Obscene

offensive or disgusted by the accepted standards of morality

Pathos

the element in an experiences or in an artistic work that makes us feel compassion, pity, or sympathy

Petulant

sulky or bad tempered

Plausible

seeming reasonable or probable of an argument or statement

Poignant

deeply moving, evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret; deeply affecting

Precocious

having developed certain abilities at an earlier age than usual

Presumption

an idea that is taken to be true and often used as the basis for other ideas

Reciprocate

to respond to a gesture or action by making a corresponding one; to give and take mutually

Reverberate

to have continuous repeated affects, a loud noise being repeated several times, as an echo

Rigorous

extremely thorough, severe, or difficult at a high level

Rudimentary

involving basic or simple principles; elementary or fundamental in nature

Smattering

a slight or superficial knowledge of a language or subject

Stodgy

dull or uninspired

Transcend

to go beyond the limits or range of something, especially in experience or understanding

Transient

lasting only for a short time; temporary

Ubiquitous

present, appearing, or found everywhere

Utilitarian

designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive

Vernacular

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region (ex. hockey pants vs. trousers)

Voracious

having a huge appetite; greedy for food or knowledge.