Term 1 Vocabulary words

Accentuate

to emphasize

Adversary

someone who offers opposition

Anecdote

a brief story

Analogy

a similarity between unlike things

Auspicious

promising success, favourable

Boisterous

rough and noisy

Cower

to crouch in fear

Despondent

feeling complete hopelessness

Epiphany

a sudden insight or idea

Fallacy

a deceptive or false belief

Formidable

causing fear or dread

Guile

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Hubris

excessive pride, arrogance

Impertinent

not relevant, irrelevant

Jaunty

carefree manner

Laconic

using few words

Nuisance

annoyance

Muse

in Ancient Greek mythology, any of the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of art or science

Obscure

not clear

Omnipotent

Unlimited power

Patriarchal

involving men or a father figure

Quandary

uncertainty

Sanguine

cheerfully optimistic

Succinct

concise, expressed in few words

Subjugate

to bring under complete control

Tempestuous

attitude resembling a tempest; turbulent

Usurp

to use without authority; to seize power from someone else

Uncouth

awkward and clumsy