ELA vocab group 1

Alacrity

Brisk and cheerful readiness

Bellicose

Demonstrating willingness to fight

Brusque

Responding with few words in a rude way

Commiserate

To express or feel sympathy

Congenital

Having a trait from birth or inherited by your parents

Discreet

Careful or low-key; not drawing attention

Esoteric

Intended / likely to be understood by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest

Irate

Feeling or characterized by great anger

Livid

Furiously angry, raging

Procure

Obtaining or acquiring something

Tenuous

Very weak or slight, fragile

Translucent

Allowing light, but not detailed shapes to pass through

Vex

To make someone feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried