Week 9 SLA Vocab

1. Onerous: difficult or burdensome.

2. Alacrity: promptness and eagerness.

3. Pith: the essential substance of something.

4. Paucity: scarcity, poverty.

5. Perfidy: treachery or deceit.

6. Plummet: to fall quickly and far.

7. Platitude: a trite or cliché statement.  

8. Esoteric: obscure, arcane.

9. Enervate: to exhaust or drain of energy.

10.  Dilettante: someone with amateur, nonserious interest in something.

11.  Probity: integrity and honor.

12.  Cogent: clearly laid out and persuasive.

13.  Castigate: to scold or berate strongly.

14.  Recondite: arcane or obscure.

15.  Repudiate: to renounce or disown.

16.  Artless: without artifice or natural, untrained.

17.  Sedulous: dedicated and careful.

18.  Assuage: to provide relief from an unpleasant feeling or to satisfy a need or appetite.

19.  Superbly: excellently.

20.  Disseminate: to spread widely.

21.  Supine: laying back with the face upward.

22.  Frugal: economical, thrifty.

23.  Glib: talking volubly, but carelessly or insincerely.

24.  Untenable: weak or unsupportable, especially with respect to an opinion or situation.

25.  Verbose: long-winded, loquacious.