ENGLISH VOCAB LIST 12

Adversity

(n) a state, condition or instance of serious or continued difficulty

Aesthetic

(adj) having to do with what is beautiful

Autumnal

(adj) of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn

Bight

(n) a bend in a cost forming an open bay

Bombastic

(adj) marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown

Comeliness

(n) the condition of being pleasing and wholesome in appearance

Digress

(v) to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

Fastidious

(adj) having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please

Fringe

(n) something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject

Frugality

(n) the quality of being prudent int he use of resources

Insatiable

(adj) incapable of being satisfied

Interdict

(n) a prohibitory decree

Meet

(adj) fitting, appropriate

Opprobrium

(n) something that brings disgrace; contempt, reproach

Peripatetic

(n) pedestrian; itinerant

Prostrate

(adj) lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward; may indicate reverence or submission

Ramble

(v) to move aimlessly from place to place

Stygian

(adj) relating to the river Styx; extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding

Umbrage

(n) a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult

Vexation

(n) a cause of trouble