CB SA Vocab

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Impetus

a driving force, incentive, or stimulus that encourages a specific action or makes a process more energetic and effective

Equivocal

open to more than one interpretation, resulting in ambiguity

Contentious

Likely to cause an argument

Analogue

Something similar to something else in origin, design, or function

Contingent

1. Subject to chance

2. Hinges on/depending on

Milieu

A person’s social environment

Conceit

1. Exaggerated, proud opinion of oneself

2. An elaborate, clever concept using writing or art

Belied

Fail to give a true notion or impression of something, disguise or contradict

Proxy

The authority to represent someone esle, especially in voting

Auxiliary

Providing additional help and support

Concurrently

Happening at the same time

Consternation

Overwhelming sense of dismay, confusion or alarm

Archetype

an original model, perfect example, or universal pattern from which others are copied or derived

Foregrounded

make something the most prominent or important feature

Contrived

Deliverately created rather than arising naturally

Antithesis

The exact opposite or a direct contrast of something

Litigation

Taking legal action

Supplant

Supersede, take place something usually because the new thing is superior

Abut

To border on, adjoin, or touch along an edge or boundary

Contemporary (with)

Existing in the same timeframe as something else

Presaged

Be a sign or warning that something bad will happen

Incongruous

Not in harmony or keeping with surroundings of something

Analogous

Comparable in certain aspects

Precipitate

Bring about a change abruptly or unexpectedly

Preclude

To prevent something before it happens

Tantamount

Virtually the same as

Dissociate

Separate or disconnect

Occlude

1. Obscure from prominence or from view

2. Stop/close up/obstruct something

Instigate

Bring about or initiate

Egregariousness

Enjoying or seeking out the company of others

Voracity

Eagerness to have a lot of something

Iconoclasm

Attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs

Forbearance

Patient self-control, restraint and tolerance

Emulation

The effort to match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation

Transience

The state of only lasting for a short time

Provisional

Temporary, conditional, only for the time being

Unobtrusive

Not conspicuous or attracting attention

Discretion

1. Speaking in a way to avoid causing offense/reveal info

2. The freedom to decide what should be done in a situation

Sanguine

optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad/difficult situation

Recalcitrant

Obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority/discipline

Misanthropic

Disliking humankind and avoiding human society

Exultant

Triumphantly happy

Exalted

1. Of a high ranking (Yes, Exalted)

2. Happy

Envoy

Ambassador/representative

Hubris

Excessive pride or self-confidence

Vis-a-vis

in relation to

Intertemporal

Relating to different points in time

Connote

Imply or suggest

Exogenous

Relating to or developing from external factors

Expropriation

Taking private property for public use

Augment

Making something better by adding to it, increase

Agglomeration

A collection

Underpin

Support/promote (a building or metaphorically)

Corollary

something that follows a proposition already proven, consequence

There are more specific ___ conclusions to the main finding

Salient

Noticeable or important

Nihilism

Cynicism, belief that life is meaningless

Incarnadine

Bright crimson / to colour something red

Exhume

Dig out (from the ground)

Assimilate

1. Take in (info, culture) and understand fully

2. Cause something to resemble, liken

Inept

Having or showing no skill, clumsy

Adroit

Clever or skillful at using the hands or mind

Prudent

Acting in a way that shows care for the future

Remittance

Payment/allowance

Profligacy

Reckless, use resources in a wasteful way

Endemic

1. (disease) regularly occuring in a community

2. (plant/animal) restricted to a certain place

Inadvertently

Accidentally

Indiosyncratic

Unique

Entrenching

Soldifying

Prefiguring

An early indicator of

Dogmatic

Strongly believes their opinions are true

Self-effacement

Not attracting attention to oneself

Efface

1. Erasing a mark from a surface

2. Making oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous

Deference

Humble submission and resepct

Inviolate

Free from injury or violate

Consecrated

Declared scared

Brevity

Short and concise

Buttress

1. A support of stone/brick built against a wall

2. A source of defense or support

Invoke

Call authority for support

Verismilitude

Appearance of not being true or real

Pretension

1. A claim or assertion of a claim to something

2. Ostentatiousness

Imprudent

Rash

Elided

When sound/syllable is omitted when speaking

Evinced

1. Be evidence of

2. Reveal the presence of

Regale

1. Talk

2. Lavishly supply with food or drink

Cupidity

Greed for money or possessions

Fain

Pleased or willing (archaic)

Thrall

Being in someone’s power or having great power over someone

Facile

1. Appearing neat or comprehensive only by ignoring the true complexities of an issue, superficial

2. Easily achieved, effortless

Transposed

Change places with

Antecedent

Preceding in time or order, previous or pre-existing

Mediated by

Affected by

Prefigure

Early indication or version of something

Fidelity

1. Faithfulness

2. Degree of exactness witth which something is copied or reproduced

Remission

1. Diminuation (lessening) of the seriousness or intensity of disease or pain, a temporary recovery

2. Cancellation of deb, charge, or penalty

Exonerate

1. Resolve from duty or oblication

2. Absolve for blame or fault of wrongdoing

Postulate

Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.

Usurp

Take a position of power illegally or by force

Conflate

Comine two or more texts, ideas, … into one

Apprehending

1. Arrest for a crime

2. Understand or perceive