Spring Vocab

1. Waif: Noun - An abandoned person or an orphan

2. Urchin: Noun - Mischivous child

3. Subterfuge: Noun - Deception 

4. Evocative: Adjective - Causing a response

5. Capricious: Adjective - Whimsical 

6. Nexus: Noun - Connection

7. Astute: Adjective - 1) Perceptive 2) Shrewd 

8. Serendipity: Noun - Good Luck

9. Sagacity: Noun - Wisdom

10. Parlance: Noun - Language

11. Culmination: Noun - Full completion of something

12. Imbue: Verb - Put into

13. Sentient: Adjective - Having consciousness or feeling

14. Aesthetic: Adjective and Noun - Having to do with beauty

15. Solecism: Noun - 1) Grammatical error 2) awkward mistake

16. Commiserate: Verb  - To express sympathy for and with someone

17. Stymie: Verb - To confuse and defeat

18. Stigma: Noun - A shameful mark or blemish

19. Chaste: Adjective - Sextually pure

20. Zealous: Adjective - Enthusiastic

21. Paradox: Noun - an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless true

22. Oxymoron: Noun - Two-word paradox

23. Idiom: Noun - a particular pattern of speech

24. EXIGENCE: Noun - Urgent Cause

25. Indelible: Adjective - Can not be erased 

26. Meritocracy: Noun - A society that rewards achievement

27. Mogul: Noun - A rich and powerful person

28. Parlay: Verb - To maneuver to an advantage 

29. Affluence: Noun - Wealth

30. Egalitarian: Adjective - Promoting equality

31. Bohemian: Adjective - Artsy and rebellious

32. Bourgeois: Adjective - Conforming; middle-class; conservative 

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33.  Semantics: Noun - Study of meaning in language

34. Circumscribed: Adjective - Limited

35. in extremis: Adjective - In great difficulty

36. Venerable: Adjective - Very respectable

37. Predilection: Noun - a tendency or preference 

38. Sedentary: Adjective - Unmoving or seated 

39. Concomitant: Adjective - Occurring with

40. Deprecate: Verb - To criticize 

41.  Axiomatic: Adjective - Self-evident