Day 20,21,22

Petulant

His petulant behavior irritated everyone at the meeting

Childishly sulky or bad-tempered

Rash

His rash decision led to financial problems

Acting without careful consideration

Surly

Bad-tempered and unfriendly

Ameliorate

To make better; improve

Antithetical

Characterized by extreme contrast

Annotate

To make notes to help clarify

Appease

To make peace by giving what they wanted

Augment

To increase

Catalyze

To cause/speed up

Circumvent

to find a way around, avoid

Coalesce

To come together to form a single mass

Conspicuous

Clearly, noticable

Confine

To restrict

Contingent

Dependent upon

Contrive

To think up

Copious

abundant

Credulous

Easily fooled

Debacle

Complete failure

Despondent

Feeling depressed

Discernable

Visible, detectible

Elicit

"I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna"

evoke or draw out (a reaction, answer, or fact) from someone.

Elusive

Difficult to find/achieve

Egender

To give rise to sth

Evade

To escape, avoid

Evince

to show one's feelings

Exorbitant

Extreme and excessive

Fabricate

To invent or make up

Facade

Exterior

Galvanize

To energize

Heterogeneous

Varied, diverse

Idiosyncratic

Unique to an individual

Illusory

Not real, based on an illusion

Imminent

About to happen

Imperative

Crucial

Imperceptible

Cannot be seen/perceived

Imposing

V.large & impressive

Incongruous

Out of place, sth that contrasts w it's surrounding

Indelible

Memorable, impossible to forget

Indoctrinate

To teach ppl to uncritically accept beliefs

Induce

To persuade /influence smo

Ineluctable

Inescapable, inevitable

Infallible

Incapable of making mistakes

Infinitesimal

Extremely small, approaching 0

Ingenious

Very clever, cunning

Innocuous

Harmless, benign

Installation

Art exhibit consisting of large objects placed in a public space

Insuperable

Incapable of being overcome

Insurmountable

Too great to overcome

Irate

Angry

Irreplaceable

Beyond criticism, faultless

Irrevocable

Permanent

Laconic

Using few words, brief& to the point

Latent

Hidden

Lucrative

Very profitable

Manifestation

Visible appearance of smth

Mercurial

Unpredictable, constantly shifting mood

Misconstrue

To misunderstand

Mobilize

To prepare for action

Momentous

Having great significance

Moribund

Approaching death, becoming obsolete

Myriad

Many

Nefarious

Wicked, evil

Nuance

Subtle difference

Outsized

Disproportionally large

Overshadow

Dominate

Offhand

Done w out care

Polar

Very different, opposite

Precipitate

Cause to happen unexpectedly

Preclude

Prevent, block

Prescient

Showing great foresight