SS.Ep.03 - Vocab List

diligent

Making a persistant and painstaking effort

Affable

Friendly

gambit (n)

Carefully considered strategy

circumspect

cautious

Speculate

Conjecture

Conjecture

Conclusion reached without complete evidence

astute

Keen in judgement; shrewd

inexplicable

Difficult or impossible to explain

cardinal

of foremost importance

Embellish

To add details to make more attractive

aesthetic (adj)

pertaining to beauty or art

sensibility

Refined awareness and appreciation in feeling

admonish

to reprimand

Pretentious

Making an extravagant show, ostentatious

pedantic

Having narrow concern for book learning and technicalities

exotic (adj)

Strikingly unusual

spontaneously

Occurring apparently without cause

inscribed

Written

inopportune

ill-timed

Forlorn (adj)

Nearly hopeless