Unit 1 - 5 vocab

Banal

(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
Synonyms: stale, insipid
Antonyms: fresh, original, new

Bellicose

(adj) warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

Finesse

(n or v) diplomacy; tact; artful management

Glib

(adj.) ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere

Lampoon

(N or V) a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone

lugubrious

(adj) looking or sounding sad and dismal

Nefarious

(adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

Nemesis

(n) someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy or foe

Pseudonym

(n.) a pen name, name assumed by a writer

Purloin

(v) to steal

Distraught

(adj.) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

Euphemism

(n) An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

Commensurate

(adj) corresponding in size or degree; in proportion

Nebulous

(adj) hazy; vague; uncertain

Admonish

(v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

Abject

(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved

Prosaic

(adj.) dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward

Propriety

(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness

phlegmatic

(adj) calm; sluggish; unemotional

Revile

(v) to attack with words, call bad names

guile

n. craftiness; deceit; cunning

proffer

v. to offer; n. an offer

seraphic

adj. angelic; sweet

amorphous

adj. shapeless; no form; not organized

decorum

n. proper action, speech, and dress; good manners and behavior; polite behavior

protege

n. someone whose welfare of career is guided and helped by a more influential person

sanguine

adj. naturally cheerful and hopeful; confident; having a ruddy complexion

doggerel

n. crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme

acetic

n. a person who practices unusual self denial or discipline, often for religious reasons; adj. self-denying

facile

adj. easily done; performing or working with ease; adroit; not sincere or profound; superficial

implicit

adj. implied; naturally involved though not obvious; unquestioning and absolute.

nondescript

adj. not having individual characteristics; lacking in distinctive qualities; drab; hard to describe

sundry

adj. various; miscellaneous

inveigle

v. to win over with trickery or flattery; to entice; to coax; to dupe

dogma

n. a belief or beliefs held to be true, especially by a church or religion

scurrilous

adj. foulmouthed; given to the use of abusive or indecent language

parsimonious

adj. stingy, miserly; too economical

exhort

v. to urge strongly, advise earnestly

nonentity

n. a person or thing of little to no importance; something that exists only in imagination

vociferous

adj. loud and noisy; clamorous, demanding