Vocab 11-15

Acclaim

v- to proclaim or announce with noisy approval, such as shouts and applause

Rejuvenate

v- to make youthful or like new again; to renew or invigorate

Revere

v- to respect or honor; to venerate, worship

Sanction

v- to confirm, authorize; endorse, approve, support

Temper

v- to moderate or adjust as conditions require; or, to strengthen through hardship

Saturate

v- to fill completely; satiate; soak

Whet

v- to excite or stimulate (the mind or appetite); to hone or sharpen (a knife or mind)

Scrutinize

v- to examine minutely, with close attention

Vacillate

v- to fluctuate; to change from one opinion to another; also, to hesitate

Thwart

v- to foil, baffle, or frustrate (someone's attempts)

Venerate

v- to revere, respect, and admire with deference

Waive

v- to give up voluntarily; relinquish; forgo or postpone

clam/claim

to shout, cry out

plex/plic/ply

to fold

Brevity

n- shortness, briefness; conciseness of expression

Criterion

n- a standard used for making judgments

Delineate

v- to portray accurately; outline, describe

Ephemeral

adj- short-lived; fleeting, transient

Copious

adj- superabundant; in plentiful supply

Dearth

scarcity or lack; paucity

Evanescent

adj- fading or vanishing quickly, like vapor; transient

Paucity

n- lack or scarcity of number or amount

Prodigious

adj- inspiring awe; enormous in size or capacity

Meager

adj- lacking in quality or quantity; scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse

Redundant

adj- extra and unnecessary; superfluous; unneeded

Scanty

adj- brief or short; lacking desired amount or size; meager

min

less, little

magn

great, large

Aesthetic

referring to a sense of beauty; artistic

Eclectic

carefully selected from many good sources

Gratuitous

offered freely, but not necessarily under the circumstances, therefore unwanted or unneeded

Inevitable

unavoidable

Irony

the opposite of what would be normal or expect; humor based on incongruity

Expedient

suitable, practical, or advisable; also, opportunistic

Apocryphal

of doubtful authorship; fictitious

Heinous

shockingly awful, appalling; abominable, outrageous

Mundane

everyday, commonplace, like menial chores

Arduous

demanding, hard to achieve; strenuous

Prodigal

wildly extravagant or lavish in spending

Quixotic

extravagantly idealistic; unpredictable; unrealistic or imaginary

leg/lect/lig

to choose, pick, read

leg

law

Verbose

using more words than necessary; wordy

Blasphemy

disrespect or irreverence toward something sacred or seriously important

Vilify

to slander or defame someone's name or standing in the community; to malign

Diatribe

bitter, critical speech or writing

Vitriolic

burning or corrosive like acid; caustic

Jargon

special language or terminology; dialect or hybrid language

Satire

comedy using laughter as a weapon to evoke a feeling of scorn along with amusement

Tirade

a lengthy, emotional, critical speech

Slander

a false, defamatory spoken criticism of someone

Garble

to change or alter meaning thought misrepresentation of facts or distortion of ideas

Rhetoric

insincere or high-flown writing or speech; originally the study of good speech

Garrulous

extremely talkative, gabby, loquacious, verbose

quer/quir/quis

to ask, seek

dic/dict

to speak; say; words

Ambiguous

indefinite, open to more than one interpretation, obscure, uncertain

Capitulate

to give in, surrender; acquiesce

Defer

to yield to someone of greater authority or age; to put off until another time

Ambivalence

fluctuation between one thing and another; uncertainty or indecision

Dubious

doubtful; of questionable truth or quality; suspicious

Languor

sluggishness; tiredness or weakness; lethargy

Fluctuate

to shift up or down; or, to come and go, as ocean waves

Tentative

hesitant, unsure, uncertain

Indifferent

not good or bad; unconcerned or not curious; aloof or detached; unbiased

Lethargy

serious tiredness; languor; laziness; torpor

Innocuous

harmless; or, dull, insipid

Stagnant

unmoving or not flowing(water); stale(air); inactive

vad/vas

to go

duc/duct

to lead, direct