10H Vocab 6-10

affable

affable

(adj.) easy to talk to; easy to approach; friendly

amiable

(adj.) friendly, kind

amicable

(adj.) showing goodwill; easygoing; diplomatic

congenial

(adj.) compatible; agreeable

convivial

(adj.) sociable; outgoing in a festive way, especially when it pertains to eating or drinking; fond of good company

cordial

(adj.) warm and friendly; amiable

gregarious

(adj.) sociable, outgoing

jocular

(adj.) liking to be with people, characterized by joking and jesting

levity

(n.) light-heartedness; carefree disposition, particularly when not appropriate

animosity

(n.) hatred, ill-will

bellicose

(adj.) of a quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike, belligerent

cantankerous

(adj.) habitually bad-tempered, irritable

captious

(adj.) likely to notice and make much of faults/defects; fault-finding; difficult to please

contentious

(adj.) quarrelsome; belligerent

disputatious

(adj.) likely to dispute or argue

polemical

(adj.) inclined to argue or debate; controversial

pugnacious

(adj.) eager to fight; belligerent

altruistic

(adj.) showing an unselfish concern for others

benevolent

(adj.) giving freely and easily to others; charitable; kind

lavish

(adj.) generous in giving to others or in spending money, almost to the point of wastefulness

magnanimous

(adj.) generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness

munificent

(adj.) very generous

philanthropic

(adj.) showing a desire to help to others by giving gifts; charitable; humane

prodigal

(adj.) wasteful; lavish

squander

(v.) to spend money (or time) in a wasteful, uncaring fashion

avarice

(n.) greed

frugal

(adj.) careful with money; thrifty; not wasteful

mercenary

(adj.) working or acting merely for monetary gain; thinking only of money-making

miserly

(adj.) excessively thrifty with money to the point where one lives unhappily just to save and hoard wealth

parsimonious

(adj.) overly thrifty; miserly

penurious

(adj.) extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly

thrifty

(adj.) showing care with how money and resources are spent or used

adversity

(n.) great trouble or difficulty

conflagration

(n.) a huge fire, an inferno

confounding

(adj.) puzzling, baffling

cryptic

(adj.) hidden, hard to understand; mysterious; obscure

debacle

(n.) a failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical

enigma

(n.) a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person

precarious

(adj.) dangerous or risky; uncertain

quandary

(n.) a dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation

turmoil

(n.) a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty; a tumultuous situation