Sponge List 12-17

Here are all the vocabulary words with definitions, including the ones you added:

  1. Culinary – related to cooking or the kitchen

  2. Sommelier – wine steward

  3. Totem – clan emblem

  4. Congenital – at birth

  5. Rancor – resentment

  6. Treble – triple

  7. Embellish – adorn

  8. Desiccated – dried up

  9. Arable – fit for cultivation

  10. Buoyant – floating

  11. Desuetude – disuse

  12. Abrogate – abolish

  13. Derogate – detract

  14. Incessant – continuous

  15. Tumescent – swollen

  16. Pandemonium – tumult; uproar

  17. Prattle – babble incessantly

  18. Quixotic – foolishly impractical

  19. Pundit – professional commentator

  20. Raconteur – storyteller

  21. Bevy – large group

  22. Semantics – meaning

  23. Vernacular – native

  24. Irresolute – doubtful

  25. Dissolute – immoral

  26. Indict – accuse

  27. Eclectic – varied

  28. Frenetic – frantic

  29. Nemesis – unconquerable

  30. Temerity – boldness

  31. Timorous – fearful

  32. Affront – insult

  33. Palpable – obvious

  34. Putative – supposed

  35. Fritter (v.) – waste

  36. Ludicrous – absurd

  37. Compliance – obedience

  38. Deference – submitting

  39. Contentious – argumentative

  40. Perennial – enduring

  41. Inchoate – just begun

  42. Risible – laughable

  43. Lugubrious – gloomy

  44. Eidolon – phantom; image

  45. Lachrymose – tearful

  46. Avatar – embodiment

  47. Jeremiad – lamentation

  48. Tonsorial – barbering

  49. Parapraxis – slip of the tongue

  50. Lubricious – oily

  51. Appalled – dismayed

  52. Sere – dry

  53. Apiary – beehive

  54. Aviary – bird enclosure

  55. Hirsute – hairy

  56. Rhetorician – eloquent communicator

  57. Sophistry – misleading argument

  58. Tenacity – great determination

  59. Zenith – apex; acme

  60. Voracious – ravenous

  61. Ludique – playful (French)