ELA 10 - Expand your Vocabulary

sanguine

being optimistic usually in a bad situation
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Dysphoria

a feeling of dissatisfaction or uncomfortableness

tumult

loud noise

ennui

dissatisfaction because you lack purpose

Saccharine

Overly Sentimental

Ochre

A brown yellow color

Nihilism

The belief that life is meaningless so you should give up on your morals

Machiavellian

Devious

Poignant

Something that make one feel sad

Alms

Food or money given to the poor

Innocuous

Harmless

Enmesh

Bring someone into a difficult situation

Sardonic

Grimly cynical

Metastasize

When a disease spreads from one organ to another

Pigeonhole

To categorize something

Foibles

A quirk in someone's personality

Tenement

Multi family dwelling

Lexicon

The vocabulary of a person or thing

Gauche

Awkward

Acumen

Ability to make good decisions

Sonorous

Using imposing language

Obfuscate

To confuse/bewilder

Pernicious

A subtle harmful effect.

Sophomoric

Juvenile or immature

Hackneyed

Something that is meaningless because of overuse

Cyclical

Something that repeats in cycles

Mollify

To calm someone

Aplomb

Self confidence

Petrichor

Smell of earth after rain

Sacrosanct

Sacred

Detrius

Waste or debris

Perfidy

Untrustworthiness

Dogma

A set of beliefs

Hubris

Excessive pride

Pulvinate

Something cushion shaped

Sardonic

Grimly mocking or sarcastic.

Panache

A flamboyant style

Constituency

A body of customers/supporters

Loquacity

Talkativeness

Schadenfreude

Pleasure in someone else's pain

Nullify

To make unimportant

Judicious

Doing something with good sense

Compunction

A feeling of guilt

Mercurial

Someone who's mood is very unpredictable

Posthumous

something that occurs after a persons death

Impetus

the force that gives an object momentum

Prevarication

The act of lying

dilapidated

Something that is run down, usually a building

ignominy

disgrace

Orneriness

stubborn

extol

to praise

Catatonic

An immobile or unresponsive stupor

Lascivious

Showing an overt or offensive sexual desire

Fastidious

Attentive to detail or accuracy

Vulpine

Fox like

Megalomaniac

Someone who has a very large ego

Dogged

Stubborn

Abhor

To hate

edified

to improve someone morally or intellectually

munificence

someone being very generous

attaché

a diplomatic official

amalgamation

process of combining

epistolary

writing something in the form of letters

mein

someone’s look or manner

magnanimous

generous

shoehorn

force into inadequate space

visceral

relating to deep inward feelings

consternation

feelings of anxiety or dismay

ardor

enthusiasm or passion

nescient

ignorant

anachronistic

something out of its place in time

elucidate

to explain

anthropomorphize

to personify things that aren’t human

solipsism

the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist

solicitous

eager or anxious to do something

prolific

plentiful

remuneration

money paid for work or a service

eidetic

someone with a photographic memory

reticent

not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

prescient

having knowledge of events before they take place