vocabulary #6

1.Obsequious: showing servile compliance, obedience

After countless rounds of arguing I turned from resistant to obsequious.

2.Beatitude: exalted happiness

Sarah experienced beatitude when her mom told her she would be having a baby boy.

3.bete noire: disliked person or thing

I would rather have a bête noire against something rather than a hatred against something.

4.bode: give a hint to what’s to come

My dad gave me a bode about my birthday present when asking me what kind of phone I wanted.

5.dank: moist, humid, damp

The rocks were so dank that Riley fell and hurt her ankle right away.

6.ecumenical: universal, general

Same sex marriage is an ecumenical topic.

7.fervid: enthusiastic, burning in spirit

Kyle’s has such a fervid and enjoyable personality that makes everyone want to be his friend.

8.fetid: bad odor

After exercising my body releases a fetid smell.

9.gargantuan: gigantic

Ana decided to throw a gargantuan birthday party for her 21^st birthday.

10.heyday: stage or period of high spirits

My heyday will come when I receive my first college acceptance.

11.incubus: nightmare

I had a huge incubus that I got rejected to all the colleges I applied to.

12.infrastructure: framework of a system

The architect made sure to create an infrastructure before starting to work.

13.inveigle: manipulate

Annie’s parents tried to inveigle her to marry Chris.

14.kudos: honor, props

I give kudos to all of the people who are intelligent and not cocky.

15.lagniappe: bonus, tip

The waiter got a lagniappe for commenting on his guest’s outfit.

16.prolix: long, wordy or unnecessary

Lectures are often prolix, while classroom discussions are not.

17.protégé: protection, under patronage

Nobody dared to hurt Andrew because  he was under the protégé of King Arthur.

18.prototype: model used to illustrate

Mr. VP used the skeleton as a prototype to explain the body.

19.sycophant: self-seeking flatterer

Eric the sycophant asked Pearl on a dance just because she was rich and pretty.

20.tautology: saying something twice in a different way

Dr. Preston often uses tautology in order to get his point across.

21.truckle: to submit tamely

Fluffy decided to truckle to spot by giving him the bone.

22.accolade: award, honor w/ laudatory notice

The football announcer gave an accolade about Beckham on national television.

23.acerbity: astringency in taste, bitter

The kiwi had an acerbity to it that made me sick to my stomach.

24.attrition: reduction in numbers, size or strength

Sadly, Bob and I got an attrition on our pay checks.

25.bromide: flat dull remark

He was so young and ignorant that all he came up with in arguments were bromides.

26.chauvinist: aggressively or blindly patriotic

It is good to be patriotic, but not chauvinist

27.chronic: constant, habitual

Everything makes so much sense when in chronic order.

28.expound: to explain or interpret in detail

In order for me to understand math I need it to be explained in an expound way.

29.factionalism: practice of faction (group within a larger group.)

High schools are probably the most popular users of factionalism.

30.immaculate: pure, free from spot

It is hard to believe that immaculate people exist in this world we live in today.

31.imprecation: malediction, curse

I have never really believed in imprecations.

32.ineluctable: incapable of being ignored or avoided

His bright pink suit and tie were ineluctable at the black and white prom.

33.mercurial: changeable

I am so glad that majors are mercurial in college.

34. palliate: to alleviate

Advil always palliates my back pains.

35.protocol: official procedure or system of rules

Mr. Rucker assigned us to read the protocol on the lab in order to know what was going on.

36.resplendent: shining, gleaming

Andie left the car resplendent after giving it a second wash.

37.stigmatize: to brand a stigma upon someone/something

It is a sad thing to find out about something through a stigma.

38.sub rosa: done in secret

All of my journals are in sub rosa.

39.vainglory: excessive pride in own achievements

He is the most vainglorious, stuck up, annoying person I have ever met.

40.vestige: surviving evidence of something no longer existing

My mother handed me down my grandpa’s personal journal which I consider an important vestige.

41.volition: exercising/choosing one’s will.

I left the meeting by my own volition.