Vocabulary Study List PDF

## Vocabulary Study List ### A - acrimonious - angry, bitter - adroit - skillful - affable - friendly - aliment - nourishment, sustenance - amalgam - mixture, blend - ambivalent - mixed feelings - ameliorate - make better - amicable - agreeable - anachronism - from another time - aplomb - assuran...

## Vocabulary Study List ### A - acrimonious - angry, bitter - adroit - skillful - affable - friendly - aliment - nourishment, sustenance - amalgam - mixture, blend - ambivalent - mixed feelings - ameliorate - make better - amicable - agreeable - anachronism - from another time - aplomb - assurance, self-confidence - arid - dry out - ascetic - abstinent, non- indulgent - assuage - to ease - autocrat - a ruler with absolute power - avarice - extremely greedy - axiom - accepted truth - beatitude - state of bliss - beleaguer- to cause problems for - belie- give false impression - belligerent - hostile - benediction - blessing - bowdlerize - censor, expurgate - brazen - bold - brusque- abrupt in one’s mannerisms - bungler - amateur, incompetent - cacophony - harsh mixture of sounds - capacious - spacious - castigate - punish - caustic - corrosive, sarcastic - cerebral - intellectual ### C - chaff - worthless thing; a husk of corn - chicanery - the use of deception - chimerical - illusary, imagination - compunction - feel remorse - concomitant - naturally accompanying - coniferous - needle-like or scale-like - conjecture - guess, speculation - consternation - anxious, dismayed - contentious - likely to cause argument - contiguous - next, together - contingent - subject to change - convivial - friendly, lively - corpulent - fat - corroborate - confirm, verify - craven - cowardly - credulity - readiness to believe - credulous - gullible, naive - culpable - deserving blame - curtail - to deprive, to reduce - dearth - scarcity - decant - to pour - decrepit - elderly, worn out from age - deference - respect, submission - deleterious - harmful - demagogue - agitator - desecrate - to disrespect - desiccate – dry out - desist - stop, cease or abstain - despot - a ruler with absolute power - diatribe - bitter verbal attack - didactic - to instruct - diffident - shy, lacks self-confidence - dilatory - slow, unhurried, tardy - dilettante - amateur - dirge - funeral hymn, mournful music - discomfit - to embarrass - disconsolate - unhappy, doleful - disingenuous - insincere - disparage - to belittle - dissembler - hypocrite - dissolute - unprincipled, promiscuous - diurnal - daily - dolorous - doleful, distressed - draconian - strict rules - dregs - remnant, leftovers - ductile - pliable - duplicitous - deceitful - eclectic - extensive - edify - to instruct - effigy - sculpture or model of a person - effusive- to express gratitude - elucidate - to clarify - emaciated - thin or weak - empirical - observed, seen - enervating - tiring - entomology - the study of insects - entrench- firmly establish - epitaph - elegy, commemoration - euphony - pleasing sound - evanescent - not lasting long ### E - evocation - imaginative recreation - exacerbate - to worsen - excoriate - to criticize harshly - extemporize - to improvise - fastidious - hard to please - fecund - producing many new ideas - fickle - changing frequently - flippant - treating things lightly - florid - excessively intricate, red-faced - flummox - perplexed - furor - uproar of excitement or anger - galvanize - electrify - garrulous - talkative - genial - friendly - geriatric - relating to old age - gerrymander - to give bias to - gestate - to carry a fetus, to develop - glib - fluent but insincere and shallow - glut - surplus, to supply or fill - gregarious - friendly - guile - cunning intelligence - gully - water-worn ravine - halcyon - peaceful, happy - harbinger - herald, sign, omen - haughty - arrogant, conceited - hedonist - pleasure seeker - iconoclast - critic, sceptic, questioner - idiosyncrasy - a peculiar trait - idyllic - peaceful, happy - ignominious - shameful - impecunious - poor, penniless - impetus - motivation - indigent - poor - indomitable - invincible, unbeatable - inexorable - relentless - infernal - hellish - innocuous - harmles - inscrutable - hard to understand - insular - narrow-minded, isolated - interloper - intruder - intrepid - fearless - invective - insulting, abusive language - irreverent - disrespectful - itinerant - traveling, not sedentary - jibe - taunt, mock - jocular - joking, humorous - juggernaut - overwhelming force ### L - laconic - concise - lambaste - to criticize harshly - lampoon - publicly criticize or mock - laud - praise - licentious - unprincipled, promiscuous - loquacious - talkative - lugubrious - looking or sounding sad - lurid - shocking - magnanimous - generous - malfeasance - wrongdoing - manifesto - policy statement - martinet - strict disciplinarian - maudlin - sentimental, emotional - maverick - independent, unorthodox - mellifluous - pleasing sound - mettle - spirit, outrage - misanthrope - hater of humankind - moribund - at the point of death - nadir - lowest point - neophyte - novice, beginner - nonplussed - confused - noxious - harmful, poisonous - obdurate - stubborn - obfuscate - to confuse on purpose - obsolescence - out of date - obstreperous - noisy, unruly - occult - mysterious - oligarchy - governed by a few - ostracize - to banish - panacea - a cure for all diseases - parsimony - unwillingness to spend - partisan - biased - paucty - shortage - peccadillo - small or unimportant sin - perfidious - deceitful, untrustworthy - perfunctory - done without effort - pernicious - harmful - petulant - bad-tempered - picayune - of small value - pragmatic - practical - precipitate - result of an action - preclude - make impossible - prodigious - enormous - prodigal - wasteful in resources - prognosticator - foretell, prophesy - prolific - plentiful - propitiate - to appease - protean - can change frequently - pugnacious - aggressive - pulchritude - beauty - pundit - professional commentator - quiescent - quiet - quixotic - foolishly impractical - raconteur - skilled storyteller - rancorous - unpleasant, hateful - recalcitrant - stubborn - redolent - suggestive, evocative - renegade - disloyal person - remunerate - to compensate - reprieve - to cancel, postpone - reproach - to criticize - reprobate - unprincipled - reticent - reserved, introverted - retrenchment - reduction of costs - sagacity - wisdom - sanguine - optimistic - sardonic - mocking, sarcastic - scintillating - shining - scrupulous - great attention to detail - sinecure - easy job - solicitous - showing concern - sophistry - use of fallacious argument - spate - series, succession, run, cluster - squalid - run-down - stalwart - loyal, reliable - succinct - concise - supercilious - arrogant, haughty - supposition - uncertain belief - surfeit - surplus - surly - unfriendly - surreptitious - secret - sycophant - one who flatters lavishly - temerity - confidence, boldness - tepid - lukewarm - terse - concise - travail - painful, laborious effort - trite - common, overused - triumvirate - three leaders - truculent - defiant, aggressive - turgid - swolen - ubiquitous - found everywhere - uncouth - lacking manners - underwrite - to accept a liability - ungainly - clumsy, awkward - vacuous - empty - vapid - not challenging - venal - being motivated by bribery - venerable - respectable due to age - vertiginous - dizziness - visceral - emotional - vituperative - bitter, abusive - voluble - fluent - wrest - to pull from grasp - zealot - radical, enthusiast The document appears to be from a notebook or study guide. It lists vocabulary and definitions related to various topics including history, literature, science, government, and more. The document is organized alphabetically with multiple words starting with the same letter listed in a row. The document appears to be a vocabulary list for the purpose of studying, not a dictionary. It’s unclear why the page number in the lower right corner is 15. It is possible that this page is from a larger set of pages.