Final Exam Vocabulary List 2024-2025 - Sheet1

FALL FINAL VOCABULARY LIST 2024-2025

UNIT 1

• abase (v.)

  • To humiliate, to degrade

• accretion (n.)

  • Slow growth in size or amount

• agnostic (adj.)

  • Doubting the existence of God

• arbiter (n.)

  • One who can resolve a dispute or make a decision

• attribute (v.)

  • To credit or assign;

  • (n.) A facet or trait

UNIT 2

• deferential (adj.)

  • Showing respect for another’s authority

• dispel (v.)

  • To drive away, scatter

• efface (v.)

  • To wipe out, obliterate, rub away

• enervate (v.)

  • To weaken, exhaust

• exculpate (v.)

  • To free from guilt or blame, exonerate

UNIT 3

• pragmatic (adj.)

  • Practical

• proscribe (v.)

  • To condemn, outlaw

• rebuke (v.)

  • To scold, criticize

• repudiate (v.)

  • To reject, refuse to accept

• salve (n.)

  • A soothing balm

UNIT 4

• capricious (adj.)

  • Subject to whim, fickle

• cleave

  • (v.) To divide into parts;

  • (v.) To stick together firmly

• consign (v.)

  • To give something over to another’s care

• coup

  • (n.) A brilliant, unexpected act;

  • (n.) The overthrow of a government and assumption of authority

• defile (v.)

  • To make unclean, impure

UNIT 5

• irreverence (n.)

  • Disrespect

• luminous (adj.)

  • Brightly shining

• morass (n.)

  • A wet swampy bog; figuratively, something that traps and confuses

• obfuscate (v.)

  • To render incomprehensible

• pallid (adj.)

  • Lacking color

• perspicacity (adj.)

  • Shrewdness, perceptiveness

UNIT 6

• undulate (v.)

  • To move in waves

• viscous (adj.)

  • Not free flowing, syrupy

• abdicate (v.)

  • To give up a position, usually one of great power or authority

• acquiesce (v.)

  • To agree without protesting

• arbitration (n.)

  • The process or act of resolving a dispute

• audacious (adj.)

  • Excessively bold

UNIT 7

• engender (v.)

  • To bring about, create, generate

• execrable (adj.)

  • Loathsome, detestable

• fidelity (n.)

  • Loyalty, devotion

• gourmand (n.)

  • Someone fond of eating and drinking

• incorrigible (adj.)

  • Incapable of correction, delinquent

• inoculate (v.)

  • To vaccinate against a disease

UNIT 8

• preclude (v.)

  • To prevent

• prowess (n.)

  • Extraordinary ability

• recapitulate (v.)

  • To sum up, repeat

• reputable (adj.)

  • Of good reputation

• sanguine (adj.)

  • Optimistic, cheery

• stingy (adj.)

  • Not generous, not inclined to spend or give

UNIT 9

• arboreal (adj.)

  • Of or relating to trees

• carouse (v.)

  • To party, celebrate

• compress (v.)

  • To apply pressure, squeeze together

• consonant (adj.)

  • In harmony

• credulity (n.)

  • Readiness to believe

• defunct (adj.)

  • No longer used or existing

UNIT 10

• immerse (v.)

  • To absorb, deeply involve, engross

• increment (n.)

  • An enlargement; the process of increasing

• inquisitor (n.)

  • One who inquires, especially in a hostile manner

• jubilant (adj.)

  • Extremely joyful, happy

• maelstrom (n.)

  • A destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects

• morose (adj.)

  • Gloomy or sullen

UNIT 11

• satiate (v.)

  • To satisfy excessively

• stoic (adj.)

  • Unaffected by passion or feeling

• timorous (adj.)

  • Timid, fearful

• usurp (v.)

  • To seize by force, take possession of without right

• vituperate (v.)

  • To berate

• aberration (n.)

  • Something that differs from what’s normal

UNIT 12

• cloying (adj.)

  • Sickeningly sweet

• compunction (n.)

  • Distress caused by feeling guilty

• constituent (n.)

  • An essential part

• crescendo (n.)

  • A steady increase in intensity or volume

• didactic

  • (adj.) Intended to instruct;

  • (adj.) Overly moralistic

• effulgent (adj.)

  • Radiant, splendorous

UNIT 13

• insatiable (adj.)

  • Incapable of being satisfied

• judicious (adj.)

  • Having or exercising sound judgment

• magnanimous (adj.)

  • Noble, generous

• multifarious (adj.)

  • Having great diversity or variety

• perusal (n.)

  • A careful examination, review

• predilection (n.)

  • A preference or inclination for something.