Vocabulary List Quarter 1+2

Alleviate

Make less severe (like suffering, deficiency, or a problem).

Beneficial

Favorable or helpful; resulting in good.

Comprehensive

Complete, including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.

Derive

Obtain something from a specific source.

Depict

Show or represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form; portray in words; describe.

Elicit

Evoke or draw out a response, answer, or fact from someone in response to one’s own actions or questions.

Falter

Start to lose strength or momentum.

Generate

Cause (something, especially an emotion or situation) to arise or come about.

Incoherent

Expressed in a confusing way; unclear.

Jeopardize

Put (someone or something) in a situation in which there is danger of loss, harm, or failure.

Justify

Show or prove to be right or reasonable.

Pacify

Put an end to the anger, agitation, or excitement of.

Perception

The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.

Punitive

Inflicting or intended as punishment.

Rationale

A set of reasons or logical basis for a course of action or a particular belief.

Sabotage

Deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct something, especially for political or military advantage

Ambivalent

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about someone or something

Animosity

Strong hostility (unfriendliness)

Deficient

Not have enough of something (quality or an ingredient)

Exacerbate

Make (a problem or bad situation) worse

Fluctuate

Rise and fall irregularly in amount or number

Incentive

A thing that motivates or encourages one to do something

Infuriate

Make someone extremely angry or impatient

Lucrative

Producing a great deal of profit

Mediate

Intervene between people in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation

Obscure

Keep from being seen; conceal

Perspective

A particular attitude or way of regarding something; a point of view

Reconcile

Restore friendly relations between; settle one’s differences

Redeem

Gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment

Scrutiny

Critical observation or examination

Tangible

Touchable; able to be touched

Vulnerable

Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm