Final Exam Vocab

Oculist

A medical doctor specializing in the treatment of the eye.

Rakish

Marked by up to datness in dress and manners

Innuendo

An direct and usually malicious implication

Enjoin

Give instructions to our direct somebody to do something

Repose

State of being at rest

Epitaph

Memorial inscription on tombstones

Bequeath

To pass or hand down

Garrulous

Full or trivial conversations

Amorphous

Having no definite form or distant shape

Lethargic

Dificient in alertness or activity

Truculent

Defiantly aggressive belligerent

Accouterment

An accessory item or clothing or equipment

Zenith

Highest culminating point, acme, pinnacle

Ominous

Threatening; Sinister

Paradox

A statement that is seemingly contradictory yet is perhaps true

Oxymoron

A combination of obvious contradictory or incongruous words

Malapropism

Misuse of award by confusion with one that sounds similar

Exigency

The specific issue that prompts a writer to create a test

Synesthesia

A description involving a crossing of the senses

Didactic

A teaching tone especially the teaching moral or thick principal

Pedantic

A tone that id overly scholarly, academic or bookish

Translucent

Allowing light to pass through easily

Nirvana

The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation

Chide

Scold or reprimand severely or angrily

Invective

Insulting abusive or highly critical language

Avant-Garde

Radically new or original

Garish

Tastelessly showy

Alms

Money’s or goods contributed to the poor

Reverential

Feeling or manifesting profound respect or awe

Amok

Wildly, without self control

Insidious

Working or spreading in a hidden and usually way

Irascible

Easily angered