Vocab List 3

Subsume (verb) subsumed & subsuming (transitive verbs) subsummation (noun)

Subsume (verb) subsumed & subsuming (transitive verbs) subsummation (noun)

1. To include or place within something larger or more comprehensive: encompass as a subordinate or component element

Ancillary (adjective & noun)

1. Subordinate, subsidiary

2. Auxiliary, supplementary

Intrepid (adjective) intrepidity (noun) intrepidly (adverb) intrepidness (noun)

1. Characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance

Dilatory (adjective) dilatorily (adverb) dilatoriness (noun)

1. Tending or intended to cause delay

2. Characterized by procrastination: tardy

Proselytize (verb) proselytized & proselytizing (intransitive verbs) proselytization (noun) proselytizer/proselytist (noun)

1. To induce someone to convert to one’s faith

2. To recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause

Recalcitrant (adjective & noun) recalcitrantly (adverb)

1. Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint

2. Difficult to manage or operate

Ineptitude (noun) inept (adjective) ineptly (adverb) ineptness (noun)

1. The quality or state of being inept (incompetence)

Equanimity (noun)

1. Evenness of mind especially under stress

2. Right disposition: Balance

Vicissitude (noun) vicissitudinous (adjective) vicissitudinously (adverb)

1. The quality or state of being changeable: mutability

2. Natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs

3. A favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance: a fluctuation of state or condition

Fatuous (adjective) fatuously (adverb) fatuousness/fatuity (noun)

Complacently or insanely foolish: silly

Capitulate (verb) Capitulated; Capitulating (intransitive verbs) Capitulation (noun)

1. To surrender often after negotiation of terms

2. Parely, Negotiate

Incorrigible (adjective) Incorrigibility (noun) Incorrigible (noun) Incorrigibleness (noun) Incorrigibly (adverb)

1. Incapable of being corrected or amended

Inviolable (adjective) Inviolability (noun) Inviolableness (noun) Inviolably (adverb) Inviolacy (noun)

1. Secure from violation or profanation

2. Secure from assault or trespass

Egregious (adjective) Egregiously (adverb) Egregiousness (noun)

1. Conspicuous; conspicuously bad : FLAGRANT

2. Distinguished

Censure (noun & verb) Censured; Censuring (transitive verbs) Censurer (noun)

1. Harsh criticism or blame

2. A judgment involving condemnation

3. The act of blaming or condemning sternly

4. An official reprimand

5. Opinion, judgment

Panoply (noun)

1. A full suit of armor; ceremonial attire

2. Something forming a protective covering

3. A magnificent or impressive array

Inchoate (adjective) Inchoately (adverb) Inchoateness/Inchoation (noun)

1. Being only partly in existence or operation; especially imperfectly formed or formulated

Sententious (adjective) sententiously (adverb) sententiousness/sententiosity (noun)

1. Given to or abounding in aphoristic expression; or excessive moralizing

2. Terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression

Homage (noun)

1. A feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord

2. Expression of high regard

Cacophony (noun) cacophonous (adjective) cacophonously (adverb)

1. Harsh or jarring sound

2. An incongruous or chaotic mixture: a striking combination