Week 10 SLA Vocab

1. Abate: To diminish in intensity, to cause to diminish in intensity.

2. Abjure: To reject or renounce.

3. Ascetic: Austere or self-denying.

4. Burgeon: Flourish, bloom, expand, or increase quickly.

5. Contentious: Controversial, involving conflict.

6. Delineate: To describe or mark the edge of something, to describe something very accurately.

7. Dissonance: A clash between two elements that don’t blend well.

8. Ephemeral: Short-lived or transient.

9. Extrapolate: To estimate or conjecture about the future based on presently available information or facts.

10.  Impudent: Disrespectful.

11.  Impair: To hinder or weaken someone or something.

12.  Precipitate: To cause, hastily and not well-considered, particulate matter formed within a solution.

13.  Vacillate: To shift between multiple options or opinions.

14.  Tenuous: Weak, flimsy, insubstantial.

15.  Specious: Spurious, appearing true but actually false.

16.  Abstain: To voluntarily refrain from doing something.

17.  Anomaly: An exception or unusual case.

18.  Arbitrary: Seemingly chosen or designated without a reason or purpose.

19.  Benign: Gentle, harmless.

20.  Brazen: Bold or open to the point of shocking, shameless.

21.  Catalyst: Something that speeds up a process or causes action.

22.  Craven: Cowardly to the point of being shameful.

23.  Didactic: Educational or with an instructive purpose, often includes an element of moralizing.

24.  Exacerbate: To make worse.

25.  Hedonism: The pursuit of pleasure.

26.  Meticulous: Paying close attention to detail.

27.  Monotony: Boredom and repetition.

28.  Polarize: To cause a sharp division between two groups.

29.  Pristine: Untouched, clean, pure.