Comprehensive English Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary practice flashcards extracted verbatim from the lecture notes covering key terms and definitions across pages 1 through 24.

Marsh

Flat grassy wetland on water

Mural

Large painting painted on a wall

Mystify / bewilder

Confuse someone

Ordeal

Painful experience

Grace

Elegance

Mistrust

Gut feeling leading to suspicion

Distrust

Lack of trust based on evidence or past experience

Vacant

Something empty and unoccupied

Valiant

Brave or determined

Infuriate

Make someone mad

Gleeful

Happy

Scrawny

Thin and bony

Sluggish

Slow, lacking energy

Insight

Deep understanding

Wistful

Sadness and reflection for something

Abundant

Plentiful

Loathe / abhor

Hate

Rigorous

Something carefully done or strict or harsh

Stealthy

Secretive to avoid being caught but is calculated and skilful

Unanimous

In complete agreement

Boycott

To not support something in protest

Waver

To shake or flicker, emotionally is to become uncertain or lose determination and hesitate

Appease

To please a difficult person by giving in to make peace

Inevitable

Something unavoidable that will happen

Parched

Thirsty or something dry

Plumet

To drop sharply

Extensive

Covering a large area

Coherent

Clear and logical

Impede

Delay or block its progress or movement

Prevail

Win, dominates and surrounds or persuade

Zeal

Enthusiasm and motivation

Chronic

Long-lasting, continuous

Dwindle

Decrease gradually

Meticulous

Really attentive

Haphazard

Random, messy or careless

Predicament

Difficult situation where you don't know what to do

Vigilant

Attentive

Delegate

Assign someone a task so you don't have to do it yourself

Censorship

Blocking information or ideas because the government thinks it is harmful

Obscure

Hard to understand or little-known or hidden from view

Torrent

Heavy rain or a large amount of something

Stupendous

Amazing

Whim

Sudden desire, idea or a change of mind without plan or reason

Ingenious

Creative

Tumultuous

Chaotic

Disdain

Lack respect and looking down on something

Calamity

Event causing harm

Dormant

Inactive for a long period

Perpetual

Something never-ending

Erratic

Unpredictable and unusual

Audacious

Rude and arrogant by challenging authority or being courageous and daring

Elusive

Out of reach physically and abstractly or hard to remember, understand and pin down

Exasperate

Annoy or infuriate

Impudent

Disrespectful and rude or daring in a shameless bad way

Pensive

Wistful or contemplative in a reflective quiet way or serious way

Shrewd

Clever and practical

Succinct

Short and clear

Formidable

Impressive, difficult or an opponent or threat being powerful and intimidating

Pervasive

Spreading everywhere or is everywhere

Usurp

Take over control or power without the right to do so or illegally

Affluent

Wealthy

Conspicuous

Something that stands out

Furtive

Secretive to avoid being caught or guilt and fear

Havoc

Chaos, destruction, devastation

Innate

A talent or ability that exists in you when you are born

Undulate

Move up and down or side by side in a wave motion gracefully

Synopsis

Summary

Deft

Skilful especially in hands or clever

Feasible

Capable of being done without too much difficulty

Inundate

Flood, overwhelmed with requests, work or information

Obsolete

Out of date, not in use

Roil

Make a liquid cloudy, muddy or turbulent by stirring up sediment from the bottom or to disturb or being emotionally disturbed

Tangible

Something you can feel or touch, or clear

Candid

Honest direct, or natural in photography

Endeavour

An attempt to make something happen or a journey to achieve something

Incessant

Never-ending

Obstinate

Very stubborn

Ambiguous

Something with multiple meanings, can be confusing

Conviction

Certainty in something you believe, final judgement of someone being guilty

Exacerbate

Make worse

Fortitude

Resilience

Insidious

Something slowly and secretly causing harm

Oblivion

State of being forgotten, wiped out of existence or state of sleep and unconsciousness

Rectify

Fix or make something right

Speculative

Something not based on evidence, looking at someone with curiosity or putting money in something risky financially

Sporadic

Something that happens now with no predictable pattern

Alleviate

Relieve

Annihilate

Destroy or defeat

Defunct

Something that no longer exists or dead

Emulate

Copy or because you admire them and want to achieve their level of success

Heterogeneous

Diverse

Homogeneous

Similar

Undermine

Sabotage

Fallibility

Likelihood of making mistakes

Incredulous

Disbelieving

Irrevocable

Permanent, irreversible

Stratagem

Clever plan

Cognizant

Aware

Nefarious

Evil

Relinquish

Give up or let go or physically release something