Vocabulary building

Vocab 7

• Anecdote refers to a short, humorous story, with synonyms including story and myth.
• Annul means to make void or invalid; synonyms are cancel and void.
• Blight is a plague or disease, similar to pestilence or plague.
• Delegate involves handing over responsibility, like depute or appoint.
• Esoteric describes something understood by only a few, comparable to abstruse or arcane.
• Inextricable means hopelessly tangled or inseparable, like intertwined.
• Lithe describes someone graceful, flexible, and supple, like agile or lanky.
• Resplendent means shiny and glowing, similar to bright or radiant.
• Satiate means to excessively satisfy, similar to being satisfied, or cloyed.

Vocab 8

• Sedentary means sitting or settled, similar to inactive or lazy.
• Regurgitate means to vomit or throw-up.
• Nuance refers to a subtle difference in tone or expression, like a shade or subtlety.
• Ingenuous describes someone innocent or naive.
• Disseminate means to spread widely, like distribute.
• Diaphanous means light, delicate, and translucent, or thin.
• Scintillating means sparkling or dazzling.
• Vicissitude refers to a random change or alteration.
• Reproach means expressing disapproval, or to scold or rebuke.

Vocab 9

• Oration is a formal speech or address.
• Invective is an angry verbal attack, similar to abuse or diatribe.
• Insinuate means to suggest or imply something.
• Figurative means symbolic or metaphorical.
• Equivocal means ambiguous or uncertain.
• Cognizant means aware or mindful.
• Abstruse means hard to comprehend, obscure, or complex.
• Amorphous means without definite shape or indefinite.
• Vociferous means loud or boisterous and demanding.
• Punitive means punishing, penal, or disciplinary.