Week 2 Vocab

Lend

To give something temporarily

Vigilance

Alertness, attentiveness, watchfulness, awareness

Deliberation

Consideration, reflection, contemplation, discussion, thought

Consensus

Agreement, accord, unanimity, common understanding

Cynical

Distrustful, misanthropic, skeptical, pessimistic, suspicious, mistrustful

Benevolent

Kindhearted, compassionate, charitable, generous

Inconsequential

Trivial, insignificant, minor, unimportant, negligible

Momentous

Significant, consequential, historic, pivotal

Superficial

Shallow, cursory, insubstantial, surface-level

Pristine

Flawless, spotless, immaculate, clean, fresh, unspoiled

Meticulous

Thorough, precise, attentive, scrupulous, careful

Venerate

Reverence, respect, honors, admire, revere

Satiate

Satisfy, fulfill, gratify, quench

Mitigate

Alleviate, lessen, reduce, ease, diminish

Convoluted

Complicated, intricate, complex

Derivative

Not original, cope, taken from something

Inadvertent

Accidental, unintentional, unintended

Arbitrary

Random, subjective, unjustified

Bombast

Overly impressive, exaggerated

Brevity

Being brief or short

Subtlety

Being delicate, restrained

Sporadically

Occasionally, irregularly, intermittently

Unfailingly

Consistently, invariably, reliably

Grudgingly

Reluctantly, unwillingly, resentfully

Self-servingly

Self-interested, selfish, opportunistic