English 10H Discussion Essay Vocabulary

DE1-DE32

DE1 - Pensive

engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

DE2 - Ardent

enthusiastic or passionate.

DE3 - Resolute

admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering.

DE4 - Affinity

a spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.

DE5 - Seminal

(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments/influential

DE6 - Indolent

wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.

DE7 - Exhort

strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

DE8 - Arcadian

a person who lives a simple quiet life.

DE9 - Adjure

urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.

DE10 - Deft

neatly skillful and quick in one's movements/demonstrating skill and cleverness.

DE11 - Ardor

enthusiasm or passion

DE12 - Rapport

A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well/empathy.

DE13 - Ascertain

Find (something) out for certain; make sure of.

DE14 - Vernacular

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region/spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.

DE15 - Hubris

excessive pride or self-confidence/arrogance

DE16 - Insipid

lacking flavor/lacking vigor or interest.

DE17 - Laconic

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

DE18 - Stolid

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive

DE19 - Clandestine

Kept or done in secret, often to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

DE20 - Obstruct

To block or fill (a passage or opening) with obstacles or an obstacle/To impede or interfere with.

DE21 - Intimation

To state or express indirectly or to make evident indirectly.

DE22 - Hubbub

A loud confusing noise

DE23 - Georgic

rustic, pastoral.

DE24 - Revelation

The act of revealing or disclosing or a sudden insight or idea.

DE25 - Coquette

A woman who flirts, often for personal gain

DE26 - Doleful

Filled with or expressing grief; mournful or causing grief.

DE27 - Squander

allow an opportunity to pass or be lost, often in a reckless or foolish manner.

DE28 - Amity

Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship.

DE29 - Fraught

Filled with a specified element or elements; charged or marked by or causing distress; emotional.

DE30 - Animus

A feeling of animosity; ill will, an attitude that informs one's actions; disposition or intention.

DE31 - Nullity

The state or quality of being invalid, having no value.

DE32 - Elegy

A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person or a composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone.