Senior English Vocab List 5

Rumination

Calm lengthy consideration; reflection; excessive or obsessive thinking; regurgitation of small amounts of food

Unabashed

Not embarrassed

Begrudge

Be envious of; resent

Simulacrum

A representation of a person

Enshrine

Enclose in a place of worship; hold sacred or cherish

Tetchy

Easily irritated or annoyed

Chortle

A soft, partly-suppressed laugh; laugh quietly or with restraint

Soporific

Inducing sleep or mental lethargy; a drug that induces sleep

Invective

Abusive or venomous language used to express blame

Rapprochement

The re-establishing of cordial relations

Profusely

In an abundant manner

Peripatetic

Traveling, especially on foot; a person who walks from place to place

Obliquely

Not in a forthright manner; toward one side

Juggernaut

A massive inexorable force that seems to have power over or influence everything in its way

Kismet

Fate or fortune