Lecture Notes Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards from lecture notes.

Prolific

Producing much fruit/offspring plentiful profuse abundant

Propitious

Favorable - indicating a good chance of success

Prodigious

Huge

Profligate

Wasteful

Protracted

Lasting for a long time, more than expected

Proclivity

Inclination toward a thing (leaning)

Proliferate

Multiply

Propensity

Tendency to behave in a way

Proselytize

To convert someone from one way of thinking to another, promote a belief

Propound

Put forward - idea/thinking - for consideration of other ppl

Provident

Having/showing foresight, providing carefully for the future

Approbation

Approval/praise

Probity

Honesty/having strong moral principles

Reprobate

Person with no principles (rascal) or adj unprincipled

Pugilism

Boxing

Pugnacious

Eager to fight

Impugn

Call into question a statement/motive

Repugnant

Extremely distasteful

Poignant

Touching/moving (in a sad way)

Compunction

Feeling of guilt

Expunge

Erase/remove completely

Acquisitive

Greedy

Querulous

Complaining in a whining manner

Perquisite

Money/goods/benefit entitled to an employee/shareholder

Inquest

Judicial inquiry to make sure of facts relating to an incident

Disquiet

Anxiety/worry

Derision

Mockery

Risible

Laughable/comical

Salient

Most noticeable/important, pointing/jutting outward

Insolent

Showing rude lack of respect

Exult

Rejoice

Sanctify

Set apart as holy

Sanction

Official permission, authorization

Sacrament

Christian rite believed to have been ordained by christ that holds meanings of divine grace (like a baptism)

Sacrilege

Violation of what is sacred

Conscience

Inner feeling

Unconscionable

Not right/reasonable

Prescient

Psychic, knowing of future events

Conscientious

Diligent

Proscribe

Forbid by law

Ascribe

Attribute something to (a cause) - accredit

Conscription

Compulsory enlistment for state service

Circumscribe

Restrict something within limits

Sedition

Conduct/speech inciting people to rebel against authority

Sequester

Hide away

Secede

Withdraw formally from membership in a thing

Seclude

Keep away from people

Dissent

Disagreement

Presentiment

A foreboding intuitive feeling about the future

Irresolute

Uncertain

Insolvent

People unable to pay their debts

Dissolution

Closing down of an assembly/partnership - termination

Absolution

Formal release of guilt/obligation, pardoning

Specter

Ghost

Auspicious

Favorable, promising

Introspection

Observing own emotional processes

Perspicacious

Having ready insight/understanding of things

Circumspect

Cautious/unwilling to take risks

Conspicuous

Visible

Specious

Seeming correct, but actually wrong - misleading

Static

Lacking in movement/unchanged

Destitute

Impoverished

Obstinate

Stubbornly refusing to change (opinion/course of action)

Stalwart

Loyal, reliable, and hardworking

Stagnant

Still

Steadfast

Unwavering, committed

Constitute

Be (a part) of a whole

Stasis

Period/state of inactivity/equilibrium, civil conflict

Apostasy

Abandonment of religious/political belief

Homeostasis

State of balance

Suave

Charming/polite - may be insincere

Assuage

Make less intense

Subsidiary

Secondary - less important than but related to something

Subjugate

Conquer

Subliminal

Sub/unconscious, hidden

Subversive

Disruptive, undermine the power of a system/institution

Subterfuge

Trickery

Supercilious

Arrogant

Superfluous

Unnecessary - in a too much/surplus way

Superlative

Of the highest quality/degree

Supersede

Replace ( a person/thing in authority/use)

Surmount

Overcome

Reticent

Reserved - Not revealing one’s thoughts/feelings readily

Taciturn

Untalkative/communicative

Pertinacious

Holding firmly to an opinion/course of action

Tenacious

Keep a firm hold of something/clinging

Abstention

Declining to vote, abstinence from indulging in something

Abstemious

Not self indulgent (eating/drinking)

Tenable

Defensible/justifiable, (office/position) able to be held/used

Tenet

Principle/belief (religion/philosophy)

Contend

Struggle to overcome/ assert something as a position in an argument

Contentious

Controversial

Tendentious

Intending to promote a controversial cause/POV

Contention

Heated disagreement

Tenuous

Very weak, flimsy

Distend

Swell/cause to swell by pressure from inside

Attenuate

Reduced - the force/effect/value of

Extenuating

Of a factor/situation - serving to lessen the seriousness of an offense

Apotheosis

Climax - Highest point in the development of something

Theology

Study of the nature of God/religious belief