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 ot 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