vocab list 9

Candor

(n) The quality of frankness or outspokenness

Alacrity

(n) promptness or eager and speedy readiness

Obsolescence

(n) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse

Impetuous

(adj) rash, impulsive, acting without thinking

Jubilation

(n) joy, celebration, exultation

Comestible

(n) an item of food or something fit for consumption

Exemplary

(adj) outstanding, an example to others

Anecdote

(n) short, usually funny account of an event

Intuitive

(adj) instinctive, untaught

Pariah

(n) a social outcast

Teem

(v) to be filled to overflowing

Convergence

(n) the state of separate elements joining or coming together

Vindicate

(v) to clear from blame or suspicion

Inconsequential

(adj) unimportant, trivial

Nonchalant

(adj) calm, casual, seeming unexcited