Multiple Choice (Vocabualry)

Every vocab word for this year

Loquacious

Tending to talk a great deal; Talkative

Melancholy

Having a feeling of pensive sadness

Succinct

Briefly and clearly expressed

Suffice

To be enough or to be adequate

Milieu

A person’s social environment

Myopic

Near sighted; Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight

Rhetoric

Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience

Salient

1. Most noticeable or important

2. A piece of land or section of fortification that huts out to form an angle

Vernacular

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vested

Held completely, permanently, inalienably

Ubiquitous

Existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time

Unabashed

Not embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

Superfluous

Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

Symbiotic

Denoting a mutually beneficial relationship between different people

Pejorative

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Periphery

The outer limits or edge of an area or object

Offset

Noun: The amount or distance by which something is out of line

Verb: To counteract something by having an opposing force or effectOm

Omnipotent

(Of a deity) Having unlimited power; Able to do anything

Sated

To satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full

Sodden

Saturated or soaked through with water

Vehement

Having or showing great energy or enthusiasm

Voracious

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food

Pragmatic

Dealing with things sensibly and realistically

Prattle

To talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way

Nefarious

Wicked or criminal

Obsequious

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Sought

Searched or tried to find/discover in the past

Specificity

The quality or condition of having a special application, bearing, or reference

Underlying

Lying or situated beneath or below

Unilateral

Relating to, occurring on, or involving one side only

Staggering

Astonishing or deeply shocking; So great as to cause one to walk or move unsteadily

Subjugate

To bring under domination or control, especially by conquest

Precocious

Unusually advanced or mature in development

Predictor

A person or thing that is able to foretell the future/make a prediction

Whereas

In contrast or comparison with the fact that

Waver

To be undecided between two opinions or courses of action

Recede

To go or move back/ farther away from a previous position; To gradually diminish

Reciprocal

Given, felt, or done in return; Bearing on or binding each of two parties equally

Prudent

Acting with or showing care and thought for the future

Pugnacious

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

Pertinent

Relevant or applicable to a particular matter

Posit

To assume as a fact; To put forward as a basis of argument

Usage

A customary way of doing something; A custom or practice

Usurp

To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right; To use without authority or right

Substantial

Of considerable importance, size, or worth

Subtle

Making use of clever or indirect methods to achieve something

Vilify

To speak ill of; To defame; To slander

Visceral

Relating to deep in word feelings, or instinct, rather than to intellect

Pristine

Clean and fresh, as if new; Spotless

Prosaic

Having the style or diction of prose; Lacking poetic beauty

Tawdry

Showy but cheap and of poor quality

Timorous

Full of fear; Fearful

Qualm

An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry or fear, especially about one’s own conduct

Recapitulate

To summarize/ state again the main points of something

Rescind

To revoke, cancel, or repeal

Restraint

A measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits; Unemotional, dispassionate, or moderate behavior; Self control