LOTF Vocab - English

Strident

adjective

1. characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound

2. commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality

Suffusion

noun

the act of spreading over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush, fill

Errant

adjective

1. behaving wrongly

   • straying outside the proper path or bounds

   • moving about aimlessly or irregularly

   • fallible

2. traveling or given to traveling

Ebullience

noun

the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings : exuberance

Recrimination

noun

1. a retaliatory accusation

2. the making of such accusations

Opaque

adjective

1. blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity

2. hard to understand or explain

   • obtuse, thickheaded

Inscrutable

adjective

not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious

Decorous

adjective

marked by propriety and good taste : correct

Crestfallen

adjective

1. having a drooping crest or hanging head

2. feeling shame or humiliation : dejected

Sinewy

adjective

1. full of sinews: such as

   • tough, stringy

   • strong

Effigy

noun

1. an image or representation especially of a person

2. especially : a crude figure representing a hated person

Vicissitudes

noun

1. the quality or state of being changeable : mutability

   • natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs

2. a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition

   • a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control

   • alternating change : succession

Bravado

noun

1. blustering swaggering conduct

   • a pretense of bravery

2. the quality or state of being foolhardy

Prefect

noun

1. any of various high officials or magistrates of differing functions and ranks in ancient Rome

2. a chief officer or chief magistrate

3. a student monitor in a usually private school

Corpulent

adjective

having a large bulky body : obese

Befoul

verb

1. to make foul (as with dirt or waste)

2. sully, soil, besmirch

Cessation

noun

a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop

Myopia

noun

1. a condition in which the visual images come to a focus (see focus entry 1 sense 4) in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects : nearsightedness

2. a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something

Ensconce

verb

1. shelter, conceal

2. establish, settle

Cordon

noun

1. an ornamental cord or ribbon

   • stringcourse

2. a line of troops or of military posts enclosing an area to prevent passage

   • a line of persons or objects around a person or place

3. an espalier especially of a fruit tree trained as a single horizontal shoot or two diverging horizontal shoots in a single line

verb

to form a protective or restrictive cordon around — usually used with off