vocab 1-100

Abhor

Regard with disgust or hatred

Entourage

Group of people surrounding a celebrity or important person

Philanthropic

Act of helping others

Redolent

Make you remember after taste or smell

Tangible

Describe someone that is able to be to touch or felt

Abide

Verb, be able to tolerate

Baffled

Be confused, perplexed

Corroborate

Back up someone’s story

Guile

Skill to deceive someone, shrewdness, cleverness

Stoic

Person who endures pain without showing complaints

Aberration

Something strange that never occurs, something doesn’t fit with standards or value

Mitigate

To make something less severe, soften emotional damage

Prodigal

Describes someone who is wasteful, usually with money

Unkempt

Describes anything that is sloppy or messy in appearance

Vacillate

To waver between decisions, unable to decide

Chasten

To correct someone in a punishing way

Clamorous

Describes someone/ something that is aggressively loud

Diffuse

describes something that’s spread out

pejorative

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Proprietary

Preparing to an owner or ownership

Gesticulate

To use dramatic gestures as you speak

Parsimonious

Stingy; unwilling to spend money

Partisan

Strongly biased to one side; favor

Segue

To move on without interruption of a topic or scene

Stymie

To prevent or hinder progress

Gratuitous

Uncalled for; lacking good reason , unnecessary

pernicious

Harmful, destructive

Pontificate

To express one’s opinion in an annoying and superior way

Portentous

Describes actions of people that are unnecessary in order to impress. Sometimes acting too serious in order to please

Talisman

An object thought of to have magical powers like a lucky ring or stone

Ardent

Enthusiastic or passionate. Burning; glowing.

Approbation

Approval or praise

Engrossed

having all one’s attention or interest totally absorbed by something; captivated

Magnanimous

Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.

Superciullious

Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others; arrogant and condescending

Exude

To discharge( a liquid or smell) slowly and steadily. To display an emotion or quality strongly and openly

Imbue

To inspire or permeate a feeling or quality

Languorous

Characterized by a pleasant tiredness or inactivity; suggesting a lack of energy or interest

Truculent

eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

Vestige

A trace or remnant of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

Arcane

understood by only a few; mysterious or secret

Impetus

the force or motivation that causes something to begin or accelerate

Incessant

Continuing without stopping; nonstop.

Inundate

To flood or overwhelm with a large amount of something (water, work, messages, etc.).

Lassitude

A state of physical or mental tiredness; lack of energy.

Abomination

Something that causes strong disgust or hatred; something considered morally wrong or horrible.

Fetid

Having a strong unpleasant smell

Lithe

Thin, flexible, and graceful in movement.

Venerable

Deserving respect because of age, wisdom, or character.

Punctillious

Very careful about following rules, details, or proper behavior; extremely precise.