Vocab 6

abominable – adjective: repugnantly hateful; very unpleasant, detestable, loathsome

abscond – verb: to leave secretly and hide

capitulate – verb: to surrender.

castigate – verb: to punish or subdue with punishment; to criticize with drastic severity.

comatose – adjective: lethargic, unconscious

consolidate – verb: to make solid; to unite or to merge

despondency – noun: depression, dejection

destitution – noun: the state of being extremely poor; in extreme want

eddy – noun: a current of air or water moving contrary to the main current.

enfranchise – verb: to give or bestow something such as the right to vote or citizenship.

ennoble – verb: to elevate to raise in rank

fecund – adjective: capable of reproducing; intellectual productive

inebriation – noun: drunkenness, intoxication

inopportune – adjective: inconvenient, poorly timed

inviolable – adjective: secure from violation or from being profaned

nonchalance – noun: indifference or showing of little interest.

prevarication – noun: evasiveness or lie

primordial – adjective: original, existing at the beginning (usually relates to time)

punctilious – adjective: stressing precise following of instructions, details, codes or conduct.

remonstrate – verb: to protest, to make objections to protest or express objections, often in a forceful or earnest manner.

rudimentary – adjective: consisting in first principles, of a primitive kind; relating to basic skills.

sonnet – noun: a fourteen line form of poetry.

tantamount – adjective: equivalent in value or significance

turgid - adjective: swollen

vestigial – adjective: something in an underdeveloped form.