upcat vocab english (#1.3)

taken from maroon bluebook 🌻

propitiate

to appease

protean

able to change frequently

pugnacious

aggressive

pulchritude

beauty

pundit

professional commentator

quiescent

quiet

quixotic

foolishly impractical

raconteur

skilled storyteller

rancorous

unpleasant, hateful

recalcitrant

stubborn

redolent

suggestive, evocative

renegade

disloyal person

remunerate

to compensate

reprieve

cancel, postpone

reproach

to criticize

reprobate

unprincipled

reticent

reserved, introverted

retrenchment

reduction of costs

sagacity

wisdom

sanguine

optimistic

sardonic

mocking, sarcastic

scintillating

shining

scrupulous

great attention to detail

sinecure

easy job

solicitous

showing concern

sophistry

use of fallacious argument

spate

series, succession, run, cluster

squalid

run-down

stalwart

loyal, reliable

succinct

concise

supercilious

arrogant, haughty

supposition

uncertain belief

surfeit

surplus

surly

unfriendly

surreptitious

secret

sycophant

one who flatters lavishly

temerity

confidence, boldness

tepid

lukewarm

terse

concise

travail

painful, laborious effort

trite

common, overused

triumvirate

three leaders

truculent

defiant, aggressive

turgid

swollen

ubiquitous

found everywhere

uncouth

lacking manners

underwrite

to accept a liability

ungainly

clumsy, awkward

vacuous

empty

vapid

not challenging

venal

being motivated by bribery

venerable

respectable due to age

vertiginous

dizziness

visceral

emotional

vituperative

bitter, abusive

voluble

fluent

wrest

to pull from grasp

zealot

radical, enthusiast