Vocabulary+List

=[|Vocabulary Master List]=

**List 1**

 * 1) **assertion:** a declaration or statement
 * 2) **clarity:** clearness in thought or expression
 * 3) **cogent:** convincing; reasonable
 * 4) **coherent:** logically connected
 * 5) **cohesive:** condition of sticking together
 * 6) **didactic:** intended to instruct
 * 7) **discourse:** verbal expression or exchange; conversation
 * 8) **eloquence:** the ability to speak vividly or persuasively
 * 9) **emphasize:** to give special attention to something, to stress
 * 10) **fluid:** easily flowing
 * 11) **implication:** the act of suggesting or hinting
 * 12) **lucid:** easily understood; clear
 * 13) **rhetoric:** the art of using language effectively and persuasively
 * 14) **arbiter:** a judge who decides a disputed issue
 * 15) **biased:** prejudiced
 * 16) **exculpate:** to free from guilt or blame
 * 17) **impartial:** not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased
 * 18) **incontrovertible:** not able to be denied or disputed
 * 19) **integrity:** trustworthiness; completeness
 * 20) **objectivity:** treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices

**List 2**

 * 1) **penitent:** expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
 * 2) **plausible:** seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
 * 3) **substantiated:** supported with proof or evidence; verified
 * 4) **vindicated:** freed from blame
 * 5) **condescending:** treating people as weak or inferior
 * 6) **contemptuous:** feeling hatred; scornful
 * 7) **despotic:** exercising absolute power; tyrannical
 * 8) **dictatorial:** domineering; oppressively overbearing
 * 9) **disdain:** to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
 * 10) **haughty:** arrogant; vainly proud
 * 11) **imperious:** arrogantly domineering or overbearing
 * 12) **patronizing:** treating in a condescending manner
 * 13) **convoluted:** intricate; complex
 * 14) **cryptic:** difficult to comprehend
 * 15) **futile:** having no useful purpose; pointless
 * 16) **impede:** to slow the progress of
 * 17) **obscure:** relatively unknown
 * 18) **obscure:** to conceal or make indistinct
 * 19) **quandary:** a state of uncertainty or perplexity
 * 20) **indolent:** lazy

**List 3**

 * 1) **insipid:** uninteresting; unchallenging
 * 2) **listless:** lacking energy
 * 3) **torpor:** laziness; inactivity; dullness
 * 4) **alienated:** removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland)
 * 5) **alliance:** a union of two or more groups
 * 6) **disparity:** inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
 * 7) **servile:** submissive; like a servant
 * 8) **suppressed:** subdued; kept from being circulated
 * 9) **embellish:** to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
 * 10) **florid:** describing flowery or elaborate speech
 * 11) **opulent:** exhibiting a display of great wealth
 * 12) **ornate:** elaborately decorated
 * 13) **ostentatious:** describing a showy or pretentious display
 * 14) **poignant:** profoundly moving; touching
 * 15) **ebullience:** intense enthusiasm
 * 16) **effusive:** emotionally unrestrained; gushy
 * 17) **egregious:** conspicuously bad or offensive
 * 18) **flagrant:** extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
 * 19) **frenetic:** wildly excited or active
 * 20) **gratuitous:** given freely; unearned; unwarranted

**List 4**

 * 1) **superfluous** : extra; unnecessary
 * 2) **alleviate** : to ease a pain or burden
 * 3) **asylum** : a place of retreat or security
 * 4) **auspicious** : favorable; promising
 * 5) **benevolent** : well-meaning; generous
 * 6) **benign** : kind and gentle
 * 7) **mollify** : to calm or soothe
 * 8) **reclamation** : the act of making something useful again
 * 9) **sanction** : to give official authorization or approval
 * 10) **dubious** : doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
 * 11) **fabricated** : made; concocted to deceive
 * 12) **hypocrisy** : the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
 * 13) **slander** : false charges and malicious oral statements about someone
 * 14) **spurious** : not genuine
 * 15) **astute** : shrewd; clever
 * 16) **clandestine** : secretive
 * 17) **coup** : a brilliantly executed plan
 * 18) **disingenuous** : not straightforward; crafty
 * 19) **ruse** : a crafty trick
 * 20) **stratagem** : a clever trick used to deceive or outwit

**[|List 4 Quizlet]**
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**List 5**

 * 1) **surreptitiously** : done by secretive means
 * 2) **wary:** on guard
 * 3) **wily** : cunning
 * 4) **ambiguous** : open to more than one interpretation
 * 5) **ambivalent** : simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
 * 6) **apathetic** : feeling or showing little emotion
 * 7) **arbitrary** : determined by impulse rather than reason
 * 8) **capricious** : impulsive and unpredictable
 * 9) **equivocate** : to avoid making a definite statement
 * 10) **indifferent** : not caring one way or the other
 * 11) **spontaneous** : unplanned; naturally occurring
 * 12) **whimsical** : subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
 * 13) **inconsequential** : unimportant
 * 14) **superficial** : concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
 * 15) **tenuous:** having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak
 * 16) **trivial** : of little importance or significance
 * 17) **assiduous** : hard-working
 * 18) **compelling** : forceful; urgently demanding attention
 * 19) **diligent** : marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
 * 20) **dogged** : stubbornly persevering

[|List 5 Quizlet]
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List 6

 * 1) **endure:** to put up with; to survive a hardship
 * 2) **intrepid** : courageous; fearless
 * 3) **maverick** : one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
 * 4) **obdurate** : stubborn; inflexible
 * 5) **obstinate:** stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
 * 6) **proliferate** : to grow or increase rapidly
 * 7) **tenacity** : persistence
 * 8) **vitality** : energy; power to survive
 * 9) **assimilation** : to absorb; to make similar
 * 10) **consensus** : general agreement
 * 11) **context** : circumstances of a situation; environment
 * 12) **derived:** copied or adapted from a source
 * 13) **incumbent** : imposed as a duty; obligatory
 * 14) **inevitable** : certain to happen, unavoidable
 * 15) **malleable** : easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
 * 16) **subdue** : to restrain; to hold back
 * 17) **acquired:** developed or learned; not naturally occurring
 * 18) **conception** : the ability to form or understand an idea
 * 19) **conviction:** a fixed or strong belief
 * 20) **dogmatic** : stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs

[|List 6 Quizlet]
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List 7

 * 1) **enlightening** : informative; contributing to one's awareness
 * 2) **impression** : a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
 * 3) **intuition** : the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
 * 4) **misconception** : an incorrect understanding or interpretation
 * 5) **perception:** awareness; insight
 * 6) **perspective** : point of view
 * 7) **profound** : having great depth or seriousness
 * 8) **inherent** : inborn; built-in
 * 9) **innate** : possessed from birth; inborn
 * 10) **inveterate** : long established; deep-rooted; habitual
 * 11) **omnipotent** : all-powerful
 * 12) **proximity** : closeness
 * 13) **elusive** : difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting
 * 14) **emigrate** : to leave one country or region and settle in another
 * 15) **transient** : passing away with time; passing from one place to another
 * 16) **transitory** : short-lived or temporary
 * 17) **affable** : easy-going; friendly
 * 18) **amenable** : responsive; agreeable
 * 19) **camaraderie** : good will between friends
 * 20) **cordial** : friendly; sincere

List 8

 * 1) **facetious** : playfully humorous
 * 2) **impinge** : hinder; interfere with
 * 3) **lament** : express grief for; mourn
 * 4) **melancholy** : sadness; depression
 * 5) **sanction** : an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
 * 6) **truncated** : shortened; cut off
 * 7) **aesthetic** : having to do with the appreciation of beauty
 * 8) **anthology** : a collection of literary pieces
 * 9) **contemporary** : current, modern; from the same time
 * 10) **dilettante:** one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
 * 11) **eclectic** : made up of a variety of sources or styles
 * 12) **excerpt** : a selected part of a passage or scene
 * 13) **genre** : describing a category or artistic endeavor
 * 14) **medley:** an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces
 * 15) **mural:** a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
 * 16) **narrative:** characterized by the telling of a story
 * 17) **narrative** : a story
 * 18) **parody** : an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
 * 19) **realism** : artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
 * 20) **virtuoso** : a tremendously skilled artist

List 9

 * 1) decorous proper; marked by good taste
 * 2) equanimity the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
 * 3) modest quiet or humble in manner or appearance
 * 4) propriety appropriateness of behavior
 * 5) prudent exercising good judgment or common sense
 * 6) serene calm
 * 7) staid unemotional; serious
 * 8) stoic indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
 * 9) condemn to express strong disapproval of; denounce
 * 10) discredit to cause to be doubted
 * 11) disparage to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
 * 12) pejorative describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
 * 13) plagiarism the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
 * 14) vilify to make vicious statements about
 * 15) brusque rudely abrupt
 * 16) caustic bitingly sarcastic or witty
 * 17) fractious quarrelsome; unruly
 * 18) incorrigible unable to be reformed
 * 19) ingrate an ungrateful person
 * 20) insolent insulting in manner or speech

List 10

 * 1) **notorious** : known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
 * 2) **pugnacious:** combative; belligerent
 * 3) **reprehensible** : worthy of blame
 * 4) **brittle:** easily broken when subjected to pressure
 * 5) **deleterious:** having a harmful effect; injurious
 * 6) **enmity** : mutual hatred or ill-will
 * 7) **heinous** : hatefully evil; abominable
 * 8) **malfeasance:** wrongdoing, misconduct
 * 9) **malice** : extreme ill-will or spite
 * 10) **putrid** : rotten
 * 11) **rancorous** : hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
 * 12) **toxic** : poisonous
 * 13) **archaic** : characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
 * 14) **hackneyed** : worn out through overuse; trite
 * 15) **medieval:** referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
 * 16) **obsolete** : no longer in use; old-fashioned
 * 17) **austere** : without decoration; strict
 * 18) **mediocrity** : the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
 * 19) **mundane** : commonplace; ordinary
 * 20) **ponderous** : extremely dull

List 11

 * 1) **prosaic:** unimaginative; dull
 * 2) **sedentary:** not migratory; settled
 * 3) **apprehension:** anxiety or fear about the future
 * 4) **harbinger:** something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
 * 5) **ominous:** menacing; threatening
 * 6) **premonition:** a feeling about the future
 * 7) **timorous:** timid; fearful about the future
 * 8) **trepidation:** uncertainty; apprehension
 * 9) **innovative:** introducing something new
 * 10) **naive:** lacking sophistication
 * 11) **nascent:** coming into existence; emerging
 * 12) **novel:** strikingly new or unusual
 * 13) **novice:** a beginner
 * 14) **candor:** sincerity; openness
 * 15) **frank:** open and sincere in expression; straightforward
 * 16) **arid:** describing a dry, rainless climate
 * 17) **conflagration:** a widespread fire
 * 18) **nocturnal:** of or occurring in the night
 * 19) **sonorous:** producing a deep or full sound
 * 20) **ample:** describing a large amount of something

List 12

 * 1) **comprehensive** : large in scope or content
 * 2) **copious** : plentiful; having a large quantity
 * 3) **permeated** : spread or flowing throughout
 * 4) **pervasive** : dispersed throughout
 * 5) **prodigious** : enormous
 * 6) **replete** : abundantly supplied: filled to capacity
 * 7) **exemplary** : commendable; worthy of imitation
 * 8) **idealize** : to consider perfect
 * 9) **laudatory** : giving praise
 * 10) **paramount** : of chief concern or importance
 * 11) **venerated:** highly respected
 * 12) **catalog** : to make an itemized list of
 * 13) **facile:** done or achieved with little effort; easy
 * 14) **fastidious** : possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
 * 15) **hierarchy** : a group organized by rank
 * 16) **meticulous** : extremely careful and precise
 * 17) **pragmatic** : practical
 * 18) **solvent** : able to pay one's debts
 * 19) **abstract** : not applied to actual objects
 * 20) **anachronism** : something out of place in time or sequence