Honors 2 English Word of the day Midterm

Midterm --> Thursday, April 29th, 2023.

Yahoo (n)

Yahoo (n)

: a boorish, crass, or stupid person

Unintelligible (adj)

Unable to be understood or comprehended

Guile (n)

Deceitful, Cunning

Devise (v)

To form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles

To plan to obtain or bring about

Incipient (adj)

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent or visible

Effluvia (n)

An invisible emanation, Especially: An offensive exhalation or smell

Pecuniary (adj)

Consisting of or measured in money

Usurp (v)

To seize or hold (office, place, functions, power, etc.) in possession by force without right

Qualm (n)

A feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety

Ingratiating (adj)

Intended or adopted in order to gain favor: FLATTERING

Capable of winning favor: PLEASING

Tremulous (adj)

Characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors

Affected with timidity : TIMOROUS

Such as is or might be caused by nervousness or shakiness

Vitriol (n)

Bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism

Gingerly (adj)

Very cautious or careful

Undermine (v)

To subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly

To weaken or ruin by degrees

Cursory (adj)

Rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : HASTY

Ameliorate (v)

To make better or more tolerable

Perpetuity (n)

Infinite/ Eternity

Quality or state of being perpetual

Accede(v)

(Formal situation) To express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand —usually + to

Hedonist (n)

: a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism.

Example --> Someone who does drugs and has reckless sex without care for the harm done to others but only aiming for their own pleasure

Ignoble (adj)

Characterized by baseness, lowness, meanness

Fawn (v)

To court favor by a cringing or flattering manner

Tactile (adj)

:perceptible by touch : TANGIBLE

:of, relating to, or being the sense of touch

Nadir (n)

The lowest point

Gallivant (v)

: to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure

Unequivocal (adj)

: leaving no doubt : CLEAR, UNAMBIGUOUS