English final vocab

Charisma

Ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty.

Dichotomy

Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions.

Forsake

To abandon; to renounce; to relinquish.

Garish

Too bright or gaudy; showy.

Melancholy

Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.

Neophyte

A recent convert to a belief; a beginner or novice.

Perennial

Continual; happening again and again or year after year.

Requisite

Required; necessary.

Spawn

To bring forth; to produce a large number.

Tranquil

Free from disturbance or agitation.

Benign

Kind; beneficial; doing little or no harm.

Compelling

Forceful; causing to yield.

Desultory

Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected.

Endemic

Native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous.

Incisive

Cutting right to the heart of the matter.

Largess

Generous giving of gifts (or the gifts themselves); generosity; philanthropy.

Mortify

To humiliate.

Plebian

Common; vulgar; low class; bourgeois.

fun

freebie

Unmitigated

Not lessened or eased.

Condescend

To descend voluntarily to the level of the person one is dealing with.

Detractor

One who takes or draws away; one who belittles another.

Expunge

To erase or remove completely.

Haughty

Showing great pride in oneself and disdain for others.

Infallible

Incapable of error; dependable.

Ominous

Threatening; sinister; serving as an omen.

Predilection

Partiality or preference.

Reprimand

To rebuke (criticize) severely or formally.

Succinct

Clearly and briefly stated; terse.

Venerable

Worthy of respect or reverence by reason of age and dignity, character, position, etc.

Callow

Immature; inexperienced.

Duress

Imprisonment; the use of force or threats.

Eccentric

Not conventional; kooky; irregular.

Furor

Fury; rage; frenzy.

Iniquity

Lack of righteousness or justice; wickedness.

Mundane

Ordinary; boring; not heavenly and eternal.

Rancor

Bitter, long-lasting ill will or resentment.

Sequester

To set or keep apart.

Torpor

Sluggishness; inactivity; apathy.

Viscous

Having a sticky fluid consistency.

Collusion

Conspiracy; secret cooperation.

Dispensation

Release from obligation.

Enfranchise

Granting the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Formidable

Causing fear or dread.

Imprudent

Lacking in judgment or caution; without thought of consequences.

Machination

Scheming done for an evil purpose.

Neologism

New word or phrase; new usage of a word.

Perpetrate

To do something evil or offensive.

Reclusive

Withdrawn from society; hermitlike.

Uncouth

Uncultured; awkward and clumsy.

Caustic

Cutting, biting, or sarcastic.

Destitute

Extremely poor; utterly lacking.

Exasperate

To annoy thoroughly; to make angry or impatient.

Frenetic

Frantic; frenzied.

Paltry

Insignificant; worthless.

Proselytize

To convert or recruit someone from one religion or doctrine to another.

Reticent

Quiet; restrained; reluctant to speak.

Sojourn

Live somewhere temporarily.

Stoic

Outwardly indifferent to joy, pain, grief, or pleasure.

Vestige

Remaining bit of something; last trace.

Contingent

Dependent upon.

Defame

Libel or slander; to ruin the good name of.

Esoteric

Understood by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest.

Foment

Stir up; instigate.

Ingenuous

Showing innocent or childlike simplicity.

Malleable

Easy to shape or bend.

Obsequious

Excessively eager to serve or obey someone.

Primeval

Of the earliest times or ages.

Soporific

Sleep-inducing; very boring.

Vernacular

Everyday speech.

Confluence

Coming together or meeting at one point; a flowing together and joining, especially of rivers.

Dictum

Formal statement of a person’s judgment or principle.

Expound

To state or explain in detail, point-by-point.

Humility

Absence of pride; state of being humble.

Innate

Existing naturally, rather than acquired.

Maxim

A fundamental principle; an old saying.

Patrician

A person of noble birth; an aristocrat.

Recrimination

A bitter accusation, made in retaliation for something.

Sagacity

The quality of being sound in judgment and wise.

Staccato

Made up of abrupt, distinct elements or sounds.

Consternation

State of paralyzing disappointment.

Doctrinaire

Inflexibly committed to a theory, regardless of its practicality.

Founder

Fail; collapse; sink.

Inept

Clumsy; incompetent.

Morose

Gloomy; sullen.

Pedestrian

Unimaginative; banal (boring and ordinary).

Replete

Completely filled; abundant.

Squalor

Filth; wretched, degraded, or repulsive living conditions.

Unwitting

Unintentional; not aware.

Vicarious

Experienced in the imagination through the actions or feelings of another.

Cajole

Persuade someone to do something he or she does not want to do.

Demagogue

Political leader who appeals to the prejudices and desires of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.

Encroach

Trespass; to make gradual or stealthy inroads into.

Idyllic

Naturally peaceful; charming in a rustic way.

Laud

Praise; applaud; celebrate.

Peruse

Read, typically in a careful or thorough way.

Ramification

Consequence; a branching out.

Static

Stationary; not changing or moving.

Terse

Succinct; using no unnecessary words.

Ubiquitous

Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.