Vocabulary Units 1-20

Cogent

Strong and to the point; convincing

Exigent

Urgent; pressing

Assay

To test; to analyze

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise

Incite

To stir up; to rouse

Resuscitate

To bring back to consciousness

Solicitous

Showing care or worry

Perturb

So make worried or upset

Turbulent

Very excited or upset

Turbid

Cloudy; confused

Alacrity

An enthusiastic quickness

Celerity

Speed or quickness

Degenerate

A person with low moral standards and behavior

Engender

To bring about; to produce

Genre

A kind or type of art

Cognate

Related to or coming from the same source

Innate

Natural; present from birth

Nascent

In the act of being born; growing

Transfigure

To change the form or appearance of

Fictive

Not real

Feign

To make up or invent; to pretend

Parturient

About to bring forth or give birth; pregnant

Repertory

The range of works an artist can produce or perform

Vehement

Strongly emotional; fierce and passionate

Inveigh

To attack strongly in words; to talk to or write bitterly against

Surmise

To draw a conclusion based on little or no information; to guess

Demise

The end of existence; death

Remit

To make less or weaker; to forgive or pardon

Emblematic

Standing for another thing

Diabolical

Of or like the devil; very wicked or cruel

Hyperbole

An exaggeration for effect

Episodic

Happening in parts or segments

Methodical

Orderly and regular

Synod

A council, especially of churches or church officials

Pastoral

Having to do with the country

Repast

A meal; food and drink for a meal

Aggregate

Gathered into a whole; total

Egregious

Standing out sharply as wrong or bad

Gregarious

Liking to be with other people

Agrarian

Having to do with farming

Peregrination

The act of travelling about; a journey

Fruition

The fulfillment of an effort or desire

Fruitless

Yielding no positive results

Rustic

Having to do with the countryside; rural

Bucolic

Having to do with country life or farms

Idyllic

Simple and pleasant

Abscond

To leave in a hurry, especially to escape the law

Recondite

Difficult to understand; hidden from understanding

Cryptic

Hard to understand; having a secret meaning

Apocryphal

Coming from an unreliable source; untrue

Aperture

An opening or a hole

Overt

Public; unhidden; open

Covert

Done in a hidden or secret manner

Context

The circumstances or setting surrounding an event

Subtext

The hidden or underlying meaning of something

Pretext

A stated reason for doing something; an excuse

Moratorium

A formal delay; a suspension

Demure

Modest and shy

Demur

To express unwillingness to do something; to object

Extemporaneous

Done without planning; improvised

Temporal

Having to do with finite time or everyday life

Temporize

To put off making a decision; to stall

Dinural

Happening or active during the day

Sojourn

A short stay or visit

Adjourn

To formally bring to an end

Anachronism

Something that seems to be out of its proper time

Chronicle

To tell or write the history of

Synchronous

Happening at the same time as

Psyche

The mind, especially at the center of a person's being

Psychosomatic

Having an effect on the body, but mental or emotional in origin

Psychotic

Having severe mental illness to the point of disconnection from reality

Pusillanimous

Timid or cowardly; not brave

Animadversion

A strong criticism or blame

Inanimate

Without life; unmoving

Transpire

To take place; to happen

Conspire

To plan together secretly

Aspire

To have a strong desire to get or do something

Esprit

Liveliness; high-spiritedness

Discordant

Not agreeing or going well together

Concordance

An agreement or harmony

Discursive

Wandering from one topic to another

Concur

To agree in an opinion or decision

Succor

Badly needed help; aid

Obsequious

Too willing to serve or obey

Segue

A movement from one thing to another; a transition

Ensue

To come after; to happen as a result

Incessant

Going on without stopping; seemingly never-ending

Concede

To admit that something is true; to give up

Intercede

To ask or plead with on behalf of another

Perpetuity

A time period lasting through the ages; an eternity

Perpetuate

To cause to continue; to further

Judicious

Having or showing good judgment

Adjudicate

To settle a dispute or argument

Amoral

Not concerned about morality

Mores

Attitudes and behaviors that are so firmly fixed that they are followed likelaws

Morose

Gloomy; ill-tempered

Expiate

To make up for doing wrong

Impious

Lacking respect for what should be worshipped

Consecrate

To set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose

Execrable

Very bad; hateful