Summer soph vocab

Abate

Become less in amount or intensity

Accede

To yelid to, to assume an office or dignity

Alienate

To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile ; to transfer, convey

Altruistic

Unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others

Analogous

Comparable to ; like

Apathy

A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

Apropos

Appropriate, opportune; relevantly; incidentally, by the way; speaking of

Assidous

Persistent, attentive, diligent, industrious, unremitting, sedulous

Autocratic

Absolute in power or authority

Aversion

Strong disinclination, disliking

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace. Belabor. Stale, insipid

Benign

Gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant cavil.

Besiege

To attack by surroundings with military forces, to cause worry or trouble. Compress.

Bovine

Resembling a cow or ox, sluggish, unresponsive. Solid, dull, slow, stupid.

Callous

Emotionally hardened, un feeling

Caustic

Able to burn or eat away by chemical action, biting, sarcastic

Coalesce

To blend together or fuse so as to form one body or substance. A Malaga mate, merge, combine, unite.

Comprise

To include work contain, to be made up of.

Covet

Two desire or something belonging to another. Crest fallen.

Dour

Stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill humored

Foil

To defeat, to keep from gaining some end. A thin sheet of metal, a light, fencing, sword, a person or thing serving as a contrast to another.

Frugal

Economical, avoiding waste and luxury, scanty, poor, meager

Garrulous

Given too much talking, tediously chatty

Harass

To disturb, worry, to trouble by repeated attacks.

Idiosyncrasy

A particulary that serves to distinguish or identify. Quirk, mannerism.

Idle

Not active or in use

Imperative

Necessary, urgent, a form of a verb, expressing a command, that which is necessary or required.

Perfunctory

Done in a superficial or half hearted manner, without interest or enthusiasm

Incredulous

Unwilling or unable to believe something

Infallible

Free from error, absolutely dependable

Ingenuous

Innocent, simple, frank, sincere. Multifarious. Having great variety, numerous and diverse

Ironic

Suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected, and what actually happens, given to irony, sarcastic.

Lethargic

Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner.

Levity

A lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect, buoyancy, lightness, in weight. Goodness, flippancy, frivolity, frickleness.

Loiter

To linger in an aimless way, hang around, do, Terry

Malignant

Deadly, extremely harmful, evil, spiteful, malicious, wicked, malevolent

Manifest

Clear, evidence to the eyes or mind, to show plainly, exhibit, evince, a list of cargo and / or passengers

Meticulous

Extremely careful, particular about details

Mitigate

To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity, lessen

Nominal

Existing in name only, not real, too small to be considered or taken seriously.

Nonchalant

Cool and confident, unconcerned

Propriety

The state of being proper, appropriateness, standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

Bequeath

To hand down, to give or to leave in a will

Nullify

To make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

Obstinate

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one

Obtuse

Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

Officious

Meddling, excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority

Petty

Unimportant, tribal, narrow minded, secondary in rank, minor

Pilferage

A small amount of theft

Precedent

An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar

Priority

A thing that is regarded as more important than another

Proportionate

Having a correct relationship between parts, balanced

Prudent

Wise, careful, cautious

Pungent

Causing a sharp sensation, stinging, biting

Reprehensible

Deserving blame or punishment

Repiadate

To disown, reject, or deny the validity of

Saturnine

Of a gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood

Scrupulous

Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details, having moral standards, principled

Smug

Overly self satisfied, self righteous

Sophmoric

Immature and overconfident, conceited

Strident

Loud and harsh,Grating

Supplant

To take the place of, supersede

Surreptitious

Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation, made or accomplished by fraud

Taciturn

Habitually silent or quiet, inclines to talk very little

Tedium

Dullness, monotony, boredom

Feasible

Possible, able to be done

Jeopardy

Danger, peril

Retrogress

To move backward, to return to an earlier condition

Tenacious

Holding fast, holding together firmly, persistent

Vex

To annoy, anger, exasperate, to confuse, baffle

Virulent

Extremely poisonous, full of malice, spiteful

Voracious

Having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous, excessively eager

Waive

To do without, give up voluntarily, to put off temporarily, defer

Whimsical

Subject to odd ideas, notations or fancies, playful, unpredictable

Wretched

In a very unhappy or unfortunate state