Vocabulary Unit 1-4

Alacrity

Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; eagerness.

Assay

To test or analyze something.

Celerity

Swiftness of movement.

Cogent

Convincing, compelling, or clear in terms of an argument or reasoning.

Exigent

Urgent, pressing, or demanding immediate attention.

Incite

To stir, encourage, or provoke to action.

Intransigent

Uncompromising or refusing to agree or change one's position.

Perturb

To disturb or agitate, especially in the mind.

Resuscitate

To revive someone from unconsciousness or apparent death; to bring something back to life or prominence.

Solicitous

Showing concern or care for someone's well-being; eager or anxious to do something.

Turbid

Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter; confused or obscure in meaning.

Turbulent

Characterized by conflict, disorder, or confusion; not controlled or calm.

Degenerate

A person with low moral standards and behavior.

Engender

To bring about; to produce.

Genre

A kind or type of art.

Cognate

Related to or coming from the same source.

Innate

Natural; present from birth.

Nascent

In the act of being born; growing.

Transfigure

To change the form or appearance of.

Fictive

Not real.

Feign

To make up or invent; to pretend.

Parturient

About to bring forth or give birth; pregnant.

Repertory

The range of works an artist can produce or perform.

Vehement

Strongly emotional; fierce and passionate.

Inveigh

To attack strongly in words; to talk or write bitterly.

Surmise

To draw a conclusion based on little or no information.

Demise

The end of existence; death.

Remit

To make less or weaker; to forgive or pardon.

Emblematic

Standing for another thing.

Diabolical

Of or like a devil; very wicked or cruel.

Hyperbole

An exaggeration for effect.

Episodic

Happening in parts or segments.

Methodical

Orderly and regular.

Synod

A council, especially of churches or church officials.

Pastoral

Having to do with the country.

Repast

A meal; food and drink for a meal.

Aggregate

Gathered into a whole; total.

Egregious

Standing out sharply as wrong or bad.

Gregarious

Liking to be with other people.

Agrarian

Having to do with farming.

Peregrination

The act of traveling about; a journey.

Fruition

The fulfillment of an effort or desire.

Fruitless

Yielding no positive results.

Rustic

Having to do with the countryside; rural.

Bucolic

Having to do with country life or farms.

Idyllic

Simple and pleasant.