Vocabulary

Chapter 1

Acquisitive – able to get and retain ideas

Arrogate – claim without right

Banal – Hackneyed, overused

Belabor – work on excessively

Carping – tending to find fault

Coherent – adhesive

Congeal – change from liquid to solid

Emulate – imitate

Encomium – formal expression of praise

Eschew – to avoid

Germaine - relevant

Insatiable- not able to be satisfied

Intransigent – refusing to compromise

Invidious – offensive

Largess – giving, generosity

Reconnaissance – military survey

Substantiate – establish by evidence

Taciturn – habitually quiet

Temporize – to stall

Tenable – capable of being held or suspended

Chapter 2

Accost – to approach and speak to first

Animadversion- comment indicating strong criticism

Avid – desire for something to the point of greed

Brackish – having a bad taste

Celerity – swiftness

Devious – straying from the direct course

Gambit – a sacrifice to gain a bigger prize

Halcyon – legendary bird identified with king fisher

Histrionic – actors and their techniques

Incendiary – causing fire deliberately

Maelstrom – whirlpool of great violence

Myopic – nearsighted

 Overt – open

Pejorative – making worse

Propriety – the state of being proper

Sacrilegious – disrespect of something held secret

Summarily – without delay

Suppliant – asking humbly

Talisman – object of charm

Undulate – move in a wavelike motion

Chapter 3

Articulate – pronounce distinctly

Cavort – make merry

Credence – belief

Decry –condemn

Dissemble – disguised

Distraught  - upset

Eulogy- formal statement

Evince – display clearly

Exhume – remove from a grave

Seckless – lacking in spirit and strength

Murky – dark and gloomy

Nefarious – wicked

Piquant – stimulating the taste or mind

Primordial – created in the beginning

Propinquity – nearness in place or time

Unwonted – unusual

Utopian – visionary view of ideal world

Verbiage – to wordy

Verdant – green

Viscous – liquid gelatinous form

Chapter 4

Atrophy – to waste away

Bastion – a fortified position

Concorde – an agreement

Consummate – complete

Disarray – disorder

Exigency – urgency

Flotsam – floating debris

Frenetic – frenzy

Glean – gather bit by bit

Grouse – game bird or a complaint

Incarcerate – imprison

Incumbent – obligatory

Jocular – humorous

Ludicrous – ridiculous

Mordant – biting or caustic in thought

Nettle – prickly or stinging plant

Pecuniary – consisting of or measured in money

Pusillanimous – coward

Recumbent – reclined

Stratagem – scheme to outwit an opponent

Chapter 5

Acuity – sharpness

Delineate – portray in detail

Deprave – marked by evil and production

Enervate – weaken or lessen the mental moral or physical vigor of

Esoteric – intended to be understood by only certain ppl

Fecund – fruitful offspring and vegetation

Fiat – arbitrary order or decree

Figment – a fabrication of the mind

Garner – achieve as a result of effort

Hallow – set apart as holy or sacred

Idiosyncrasy – peculiarity

Ignominy – shame and disgrace

Mundane- earthly

Nuance – subtle or slight variation

Overweening – conceited

Penchant - strong attraction or inclination

Reputed – according to reputation or accepted belief

Sophistry – reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound

Sumptuous – costly

Ubiquitous – Existing everywhere

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