Vocab Unit 7 & 8

Ardent

Enthusiastic or passionate; characterized by intense feeling and emotion

Augment

To make greater, larger, or more intense

Candor

Quality of being open and honest in expression

Credulous

Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things

Disposition

A person's inherent qualities of mind and character

Dissonance

Tension or clash resulting from two unsuitable elements; disagreement

Fastidious

Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please

Formidable

Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful

Impertinence

A lack of respect, rudeness

Incongruous

Not harmonious in character; out of keeping or place

Ineffable

Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

Malignant

Harmful in influence or effect

Poignant

Evoking a sense of sadness or regret

Prostrate

Completely overcome and lacking vitality, will, or power to rise

Qualm

An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry or fear, apprehension

Ramification

The consequence of an action or event

Remonstrate

To say or plead in protest, reproof, or opposition

Stagnant

Showing no activity; dull and sluggish

Supplicate

To ask for earnestly and humbly

Vehement

Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense

Affable

courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to

Aggrandize

to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater

Amorphous

shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character without organization, unity, or cohesion

Aura

that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality

Bewilder

to cause someone to be perplexed, confused

Contraband

illegal traffic, smuggled goods; (adj) illegal, prohibited

Erudite

scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic

Gossamer

thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; (n) a very thin, light cloth

Infer

to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply

Inscrutable

incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically

Insular

relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

Irrevocable

incapable of being changed or called back

Propensity

a natural inclination or predilection toward

Querulous

peevish, complaining, fretful

Repudiate

to disown, reject, or deny the validity of

Resilient

able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly

Reverberate

to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly

Scurrilous

coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed

Sedulous

persistent, showing industry and determination

Sleazy

thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality or character; ethically low, mean, or disreputable