English Vocab: Week #2 MP1 2025/2026

Belligerent (Adjective)

Given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive

Benevolent (Adjective)

Kindly, charitable

Cursory (Adjective)

Hasty, quick, not thorough

Duplicity (Noun)

Treachery, deceitfulness

Extol (Verb)

To praise extravagantly

Feasible (Adjective)

Possible, able to be done

Grimace (Noun)

A wry face; facial distortion

Holocaust (Noun)

A large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering

Impervious (Adjective)

Not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance

Impetus (Noun)

A moving force, impulse, stimulus

Jeopardy (Noun)

Danger

Meticulous (Adjective)

Extremely careful; particular about details

Nostalgia (Noun)

A longing for something past

Quintessence (Noun)

The purest essence or form of something; the most typical example

Retrogress (Verb)

To move backward; to return to an earlier condition

Scrutinize (Verb)

To examine closely

Tepid (Adjective)

Lukewarm; unenthusiastic; marked by an absence of interest

Adversary (Noun)

An enemy; opponent

Alienate (Verb)

To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey

Artifice (Noun)

A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery

Coerce (Verb)

To compel; to force

Craven (Adjective)

Cowardly; a coward

Culinary (Adjective)

Of or related to cooking or the kitchen

Demise (Noun)

A death, especially of a person in a lofty position

Exhilarate (Verb)

To enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

Fallow (Adjective)

Plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow

Harass (Verb)

To disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks