{1301-1400} Tier 2 MasterKlass Vocabulary words

Embellish

To decorate 2. to exaggerate

Incarcerate

To jail, to imprison

Contiguous

adjacent to; touching upon

Steadfast

Unswerving, loyal, reliable

Solicitude

care

Admonish

To reprimand, to rebuke, scold

Proficient

Knowledgeable

Profligate

wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute;

Confluence

A meeting of two or more things

Licentious

Sexually suggestive, bawdy

Jocular

Humorous, likely to make jokes

Cessation

A stop or interruption

Consecrate

To declare holy or sacred

Specious

Pleasing or reasonable on the surface but actually false

Surreptitious

done secretly; secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden

Monolithic

Massively solid, unyielding

Accost

approach and speak first to a person

Implicit

understood but not stated; implied; unquestioning and complete;

Boorish

rude; insensitive

Prude

excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things)

Embellishment

decoration

Neurotic

Excessively anxious or obsessive

Impartial

Neutral, unbiased

Inundate

flood; overflow; submerge; cover completely

Remediable

reparable

Meager

small; scanty

Rehash

revamp hurriedly/carelessly

Impede

To block or prevent

Perfidious

Traitorous, disloyal

Sycophant

servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man;

Acrimonious

Bitter, harsh

Indecisive

marked by indecision; inconclusive;

Verbatim

Word for word

Flinch

hesitate; shrink back (in fear of something unpleasant);

Congregate

To gather together (usually for a purpose)

Prolific

producing a lot

Repulse

o drive back; OR to disgust strongly

Arcane

obscure; known only to few people

Abstain

To control oneself from temptation, refrain from

Culpable

Guilty, reprehensible

Candor

frankness; open honesty;

Sagacious

wise; perceptive; shrewd; having insight;

Authenticate

prove genuine

Tenable

Arguable, workable

Saccharine

cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar or saccharin

Unobtrusive

inconspicuous; not blatant

Impertinent

insolent; rude; not pertinent;

Unwarranted

unjustified

Scrutinize

examine carefully

Rebuttal

refutation; response with contrary evidence;

Ebullient

showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling;

Poignancy

quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion;

Diffident

shy; hesitant

Inordinate

Excessive, unrestrained

Florid

ruddy; (of a complexion) reddish; flowery; very ornate;

Indignant

Angry, insulted

Vacillate

Hesitate, waver

Credulity

Willingness to believe

Stodgy

dull; stuffy; boringly conservative;

Flay

strip off skin; plunder; remove the skin from; criticize harshly

Reprehensible

Deserving strong disapproval

Haphazard

Happening in an unplanned way

Amorphous

Without a clearly defined shape or form

Concomitant

that which accompanies;

Quell

To soothe, to calm, to put down

Aberration

Something abnormal or strange

Waver

move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement

Inflexible

Unwilling to change, stiff

Enfranchise

admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote);

Impenetrable

not able to be pierced or entered; beyond understanding; impossible to understand;

Transient

Temporary, fleeting

Astute

wise; mentally sharp

Exemplify

show by example; furnish an example; serve as an example of;

Chicanery

trickery; attempt to deceive

Lambaste

Denounce

Irreproachable

Untouchable, perfect

Impervious

Invulnerable, impenetrable

Piecemeal

one part at a time; gradually; in stages;

Quagmire

bog; marsh; soft, wet, boggy land; predicament

Maelstrom

a strong whirlpool 2. A storm

Vitiate

To debase, to make something faulty

Efficacious

effective

Transgression

violation of a law; sin;

Indignity

treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect

Eloquence

expressiveness; persuasive speech;

Enamored

in love;

Expostulation

protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade;

Sullen

silently showing ill humor or resentment; dark; gloomy

Affinity

feeling of kinship; similarity;

Connotation

Implied meaning of a word beyond its literal sense

Invidious

designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy;

Contravene

contradict; oppose; violate (a rule, law, or custom);

Trifling

Unimportant, trivial

Dabble

work at in a nonserious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid

Stymie

thwart; present an obstacle; stump

Ostensible

Seeming, on the surface only

Indolent

lazy

Gratuitous

Unnecessary

Idiosyncratic

quirky; unique to an individual

Incendiary

Inflammatory, provoking