Finals Vocab Level F

Beneficent

Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good

Infraction

A breaking of a law or obligation

Concoct

To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate

Mitigate

To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity

Crass

Coarse, unfeeling; stupid

Prate

To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion

Debase

To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate

Restitution

The act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage

Desecrate

To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute

Stalwart

Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; A brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position

Inconsequential

Trifling, unimportant

Vulnerable

Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

Consternation

Dismay, confusion

Intemperate

Immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement

Dispassionate

Impartial; calm, free from emotion

Odium

Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

Dissension

Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

Relegate

To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish

Expurgate

To remove objectionable passages or words from a text; to cleanse, purify

Squeamish

Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined

Ignoble

Mean, low, base

Subservient

Subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end

Impugn

To call into question; to attack as false

Susceptible

Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance

Abate

To make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit

Novice

One who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience (also used adjectivally)

Adulation

Praise or flattery that is excessive

Penury

Extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency

Avarice

A greedy desire, particularly for wealth

Pretentious

Done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably ambitious

Culpable

Deserving blame, worthy of condemnation

Recapitulate

To review a series of facts; to sum up

Dilatory

Tending to delay or procrastinate; not prompt; intended to delay or postpone

Supposition

Something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

Equivocate

To speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

Torpid

Inactive, sluggish, dull

Accrue

To grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result

Gratuitous

Freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted

Bedlam

A state or scene of uproar and confusion

Imperious

Overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling

Covert

Hidden, disguised, purposefully kept secret; sheltered, secluded; A sheltered place, a hiding place

Munificent

Extremely generous, lavish

Debonair

Pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in a manner and appearance

Procrastinate

To delay, put off until later

Efficacious

Effective, producing results

Provocative

Tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying

Gist

The essential part, main point, or essence

Sedentary

Characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place

Censurable

Deserving of blame or correction

Heresy

An opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred

Contingent

Likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; A representative group forming part of a larger body

Palpable

Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized

Corroborate

To confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify

Perceptive

Having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation

Denizen

An inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

Pernicious

Extremely harmful; deadly, fatal

Discursive

Passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic

Satiate

To satisfy completely; to fill to excess; Full, satisfied

Foist

To impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion

Sear

To make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, singe

Absolve

To clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt

Ostentatious

Marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy

Contiguous

Side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time

Paragon

A model of excellence or perfection

Deleterious

Harmful, injurious

Politic

Prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient

Enhance

To raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of

Redundant

Extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush

Enthrall

To captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison

Scintillating

Sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities)

Implicit

Implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in

Winsome

Charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting a childlike charm and innocence)