AICE VOCAB

ALIMENTARY

Relating to food and nourishment.

ALTRUISTIC

Showing an unselfish concern for others.

AMELIORATE

To make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension.

AMIABLE

Friendly; kind.

APATHETIC

Indifferent; showing no care, interest, or concern; lacking emotion.

BANEFUL

Causing ruin; harmful; pernicious.

BELLIGERENT

Taking part in war or fighting; ready to fight.

BENEVOLENT

Giving freely and easily to others; charitable.

BERATE

To rebuke or scold in a harsh tone.

CASTIGATE

To scold or punish severely.

COMPLIANT

Yielding, submissive.

CONFLAGRATION

A huge fire, an inferno.

CONTEMPTUOUS

Lacking respect; scornful.

CRYPTIC

Hidden; hard to understand; mysterious; obscure.

DEBACLE

A failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical.

DELETERIOUS

Harmful to one’s health or overall welfare.

DIGRESS

To wander off from the subject or topic spoken about.

EBULLIENT

Filled with a bubbly excitement, as if boiling over with excitement.

EMACIATED

Very, very thin due to lack of adequate food.

EPICURIAN

Having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking.

EXALT

To praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity, power.

FRUGAL

Careful with money; thrifty; not costly.

GARRULOUS

Talkative; loquacious.

GLUTTON

One who overindulges in food and drink.

GREGARIOUS

Sociable, outgoing.

IMPUGN

To oppose or attack someone or something as false or refutable.

INDOLENT

Lazy; not wanting to do any work.

LABYRINTH

A maze from which it is very hard to extricate (free) oneself.

LACKLUSTER

Lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring.

LACONIC

Using few words in speech.

LARGESS

Generous giving.

LAUD

To praise; extol.

LISTLESS

Lacking interest in something, usually because of illness, fatigue, or general sadness.

NEFARIOUS

Very mean and wicked.

OBDURATE

Resistant to persuasion or softening; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.

OSTENTATIOUS

Having to do with showing off; pretentious.

PHILANTHROPIC

Showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable; humane.

PLACATE

To make calm; to soothe.

PROSAIC

Dull; commonplace.

RAVENOUS

Very hungry.