Honors 2 English Word of the day FINAL

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Yahoo (n)

: a boorish, crass, or stupid person

Unintelligible (adj)

Unable to be understood or comprehended

Guile (n)

Deceitful, Cunning

Devise (v)

To form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles

To plan to obtain or bring about

Incipient (adj)

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent or visible

Effluvia (n)

An invisible emanation, Especially: An offensive exhalation or smell

Pecuniary (adj)

Consisting of or measured in money

Usurp (v)

To seize or hold (office, place, functions, power, etc.) in possession by force without right

Qualm (n)

A feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety

Ingratiating (adj)

Intended or adopted in order to gain favor: FLATTERING

Capable of winning favor: PLEASING

Tremulous (adj)

Characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors

Affected with timidity : TIMOROUS

Such as is or might be caused by nervousness or shakiness

Vitriol (n)

Bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism

Gingerly (adj)

Very cautious or careful

Undermine (v)

To subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly

To weaken or ruin by degrees

Cursory (adj)

Rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : HASTY

Ameliorate (v)

To make better or more tolerable

Perpetuity (n)

Infinite/ Eternity

Quality or state of being perpetual

Accede (v)

(Formal situation) To express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand —usually + to

Hedonist (n)

: a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure: someone who practices hedonism.

Example --> Someone who does drugs and has reckless sex without care for the harm done to others but only aiming for their own pleasure: a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism.

Ignoble (adj)

Characterized by baseness, lowness, meanness

Fawn (v)

To court favor by a cringing or flattering manner

Tactile (adj)

:perceptible by touch : TANGIBLE

:of, relating to, or being the sense of touch

Nadir (n)

The lowest point

Gallivant (v)

: to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure

Unequivocal (adj)

: leaving no doubt : CLEAR, UNAMBIGUOUS

Infantilize (v)

: to make or keep infantile: to treat as if infantile

Infantile → suitable to or characteristic of an infant

especially: very immature

Shenanigans (n)

: tricky or questionable practices or conduct —usually used in plural

: high-spirited or mischievous activity —usually used in plural

Disparate (adj)

: markedly distinct in quality or character

Cavalcade (n)

: a procession of vehicles or ships

: a dramatic sequence or procession : SERIES

Zany (adj)

: very eccentric or absurd often in an amusing way

Carouse (v)

: to take part in a carouse : engage in dissolute behavior

Wistful (adj)

: full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy

also : inspiring such yearning

: musingly sad : PENSIVE

Beguile (v)

HOODWINK (: to deceive by false appearance : DUPE)

: to lead by deception

Dolorous (adj)

: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief

Hackles (n)

: erectile hairs along the neck and back especially of a dog: TEMPER, DANDER

Contraption (n)

: DEVICE, GADGET

Lackadaisical (adj)

: lacking life, spirit, or zest : LANGUID

MacGyver (v)

: to make, form, or repair (something) with what is conveniently on hand

Vicinity (n)

: a surrounding area or district : NEIGHBORHOOD

Unctuous (adj)

: having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality

Plausible (adj)

: superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often deceptively so

: superficially pleasing or persuasive

: appearing worthy of belief

Sinecure (n)

: an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income

Expedite (v)

: to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up

Arboreal (adj)

: of, relating to, or resembling a tree

Vicissitudes (n)

: a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition

: alternating change : SUCCESSION

Prudence (n)

: the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason

: sagacity or shrewdness in the management of affairs

: skill and good judgment in the use of resources

: caution or circumspection as to danger or risk

Shrewd (adj)

: marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen

: given to wily and artful ways of dealing

Posterity (n)

: all future generations

Plummet (v)

: to fall perpendicularly

: to drop sharply and abruptly

Defunct (adj)

: no longer living, existing, or functioning