SPRING VOCAB

Waif

An abandoned person or an orphan.

Urchin

Mischievous child.

Subterfuge

Deception.

Evocative

Causing a response.

Capricious

Whimsical.

Nexus

Connection.

Astute

1-Perceptive 2-Shrewd.

Serendipity

Good luck.

Sagacity

Wisdom.

Parlance

Language.

Culmination

Full completion of something.

Endue

Put in to.

Sentient

Having consciousness or feeling.

Aesthetic

Having to do with beauty.

Solecism

1-Grammatical error 2-Awkward mistake.

Commiserate

Express sympathy for and with somebody.

Stimey

To confuse and defeat.

Stigma

Shameful mark or a blemish.

Chaste

Sexually pure.

Zealous

Enthusiastic.

Paradox

Apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true.

Oxymoron

A 2-word paradox.

Idiom

Pattern of speech.

Exigence

Urgent cause.

Indelible

Cannot be erased.

Meritocracy

Society that rewards achievement.

Mogul

Rich and powerful person.

Parlay

To maneuver to an advantage.

Affluence

Wealth.

Egalitarian

Promoting equality.

Bohemian

Artsy and rebellious.

Bourgeois

Conforming middle-class and conservative.

Semantics

Study of meaning in language.

Circumscribed

Limited or as though someone has drawn a circle or put a fence around them.

In Extremis

In great difficulty.

Venerable

Respectable but more respectable than respectable; very respectable.

Predilection

Tendency or preference.

Sedentary

Unmoving or seated.

Concomitant

Occurring with.

Deprecate

To criticize.

Axiomatic

A standard rule (Self-evident).