Week 10 SLA Vocab

Abate

To diminish in intensity, to cause to diminish in intensity

Abjure

To reject or renounce

Ascetic

Austere or self-denying

Burgeon

Flourish, bloom, expand, or increase quickly

Contentious

Controversial, involving conflict

Delineate

To describe or mark the edge of something, to describe something very accurately

Dissonance

A clash between two elements that dont blend well

Ephemeral

Short-lived or transient

Extrapolate

To estimate or conjecture about the future based on presently available information or facts

Impudent

Disrespectful

Impair

To hinder or weaken someone or something

Precipitate

To cause, hastily and not well-considered, particulate matter formed within a solution

Vacillate

To shift between multiple options or opinions

Tenuous

Weak, flimsy, insubstantial

Specious

Spurious, appearing true but actually false

Abstain

To voluntarily refrain from doing something

Anomaly

An exception or unusual case

Arbitrary

Seemingly chosen or designated without a reason or purpose

Benign

Gentle, harmless

Brazen

Bold or open to the point of shocking, shameless

Catalyst

Something that speeds up a process or causes action

Craven

Cowardly to the point of being shameful

Didactic

Educational or with an instructive purpose, often includes an element of moralizing

Exacerbate

To make worse

Hedonism

The pursuit of pleasure

Meticulous

Paying close attention to detail

Monotony

Boredom and repetition

Polarize

To cause a sharp division between two groups

Pristine

Untouched, clean, pure