English IV Vocab #5 fr

abject

wretched, humiliating; despicable

blithe

joyful, glad, cheerful; carefree, casual heedless

choleric

bad-tempered, irascible

churlish

rude, boorish, loutish

dilate

to widen, expand

dire

fearful, calamitous, disastrous; extreme, urgent

dulcet

sweet, melodious (sounds)

ebullience

enthusiasm, exuberance, high spirits

flaccid

flappy, limp

fretful

irritable, peevish, petulant, querelous

hiatus

gap, interruption, break

imbroglis

a predicament, confused situation, entanglement

inculcate

to instill, implant, teach earnestly

lassitude

weariness, lethargy, languor, listlessness

miscreant

a villain, scoundrel, evildoer; an infidel, heretic

noxious

harmful, injurious, destructive, deleterious, detrimental

obsequious

fawning, servile, excessively polite

parsimonious

stingy, extreme frugality

petulant

irritable, peevish, ill-tempered

progeny

descendants, offspring

quaff

to drink deeply and heartily

renumerate

to pay for, pay to

reverie

a daydream, fanciful musing

sagacious

shrewd, astute, judicious, wise

timorous

fearful, timid, apprehensive