Units 9-12 Vocab Review

Abstemious

Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking

Adjure

To command or advise, often under the oath or with the threat of penalty

Copious

Present in large quantity

Fatuous

Foolish or idiotic

Indelible

Unable to removed, washed away, or erased

Maltreat

To treat roughly or unkindlt

Nefarious

extremely evil; sinsiter

Nonentity

A person or thing of little signifigance

Pendulous

Suspended and hanging downward

Persiflage

Playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks or mockery

Retrench

To reduce or diminish in extent or quantity (costs, povert, etc.)

Sapient

wise;prudent

Sardonic

Scornfully mocking or cynical (similar to sarcastic)

Timorous

Fearful or timid

vivify

To give life to; to enliven

Anthropomorphism

The representation of objects/animals as having human form or traits

Contravene

To go against or act contrary to; to violate

Cursory

Going rapidly over something without much concern/ attentions

Deferential

Respectful or courteous

Dilatory

Tending to delay or procrastinate

Dour

Severe or very strictGloomy or sullen

Efficacy

Power or capacity to produce a desired effect; effecctiveness

Ephemeral

lasting a short time; brief or temporary

Expound

to explain in dteail

Grandiloquent

Extravagant and fanciful in language, style, etc.

Indoctrinate

to intstruct in a set of principles or beliefs

Inimical

Harmful or detrimental

Magnate

A highly influential and high ranking person in any field

Probity

Integrity and honesty

Soporific

Causing sleep or drowsiness

Abase

to humiliate, degrade

Blandish

To persuade with flattery or compliments

Cacophony

a harsh disharmonous sound

Defunct

No longer used or exsisting

Fetid

having a foul, offensive odor

Immutable

unchangeable

impecunious

Poor or destitute

Licentious

Lacking mora or legal restraints

Palliate

To make less severe

Paucity

A small quantity or shortage

Quixotic

unrealistic and impractical

Recapitulate

To review or summarize

Temerity

Bold recklessness or audacity

Truculent

Brutally harsh and cruel

Vacuous

lacking intelligence

Accede

To agree

Acumen

Sharp, keen insight or perception (the ability to understand or figure out easily)

Apocryphal

Fictitious or false

Denigrate

To criticize or attack one's reputation; to belittle

Emollient

Soothing and relaxing

Forbearance

Patience and tolereance

Inviolable

Secure or incapable of being violated

Manifold

Diverse or varied

Penurious

extremely stingy or greedy (not generous or giving at all)

Phelgmatic

Uninterested or not easily excited

Promulgate

To proclaim or make known

Recalcitrant

Resisting authority or control; defiant

Solipsistic

Believing that oneself is all that exists; extremely self-centered

Turpitude

Depravity/ evilness or moral corruption

Winsome

charming and pleasing