The Joy Luck Club- Vocabulary List #2

Acquiesce

agree or express agreement

Apathetic

showing little or no emotion or animation

Chastise

censure vehemently

Exuberance

joyful enthusiasm

Garish

tastelessly showy

Guileless

innocent and free of deceit

Innuendo

an indirect and unusually malicious implication

Inviolable

immune to attack;incapable of being tampered with

Posterity

all future generations

Pretext

a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason

Sham

something that is counterfeit; not what it seems to be

Sonorous

full and loud and deep

Unequivocal

admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding

Vehemence

the property of being wild or turbulent

Concubine

a woman who cohabits with an important man

Docile

easily handled or managed

Forlorn

marked by or showing hopelessness

Impertinent

improperly forward or bold

Lustrous

made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing

Pious

having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity

Potent

having or wielding force or authority

Refrain

resist doing something

Revere

love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess

Simper

smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way