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Vocabulary Spring 2025

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  • To think deeply
    Ruminate
  • Something that marks the approach of something else
    Harbinger
  • Moral corruption
    Depravity
  • Secret or illegal cooperation, especially to cheat other
    Collusion
  • Extremely unpleasant
    Odious
  • A person falsely claiming to have special talents or skills
    Charlatan
  • Showing a lack of thought or intelligence
    Vacuous
  • Small flaw
    Foible
  • Tense bitterness in a relationship
    Acrimony
  • From the gut
    Visceral
  • Brave and adventurous
    Intrepid
  • Having or showing no skill
    Inept
  • Emotionally uninvolved
    Aloof
  • To break a rule or boundry
    Transgress
  • Persuade by flattering or gently teasing
    Cajole
  • To drink heartily
    Quaff
  • Placing too much emphasis on minor or unimportant details
    Persnickety
  • Lacking social grace
    Gauche
  • To be unwilling to accept an idea or request
    Balk
  • To make less severe, serious, or painful
    Mitigate
  • To make more pointed
    Hone
  • Having a long or flexible quality
    Lithe
  • Deserving censure or condemnation
    Reprehensible
  • Spoken or done without preparation
    Extemporaneous
  • Too thin, as in suffering from hunger or illness
    Gaunt
  • Designed to start fires or conlfict
    Incendiary
  • Artificially sweet
    Saccharine
  • Able to be touched or felt
    Palpable
  • Slightly rude in speech or manner
    Brusque
  • In a ridiculous manner
    Farcical
  • All future generations
    Posterity
  • Relating to the idea of all people deserving equal rights
    Egalitarian
  • Able to endure hardship without showing pain or complaining
    Stoic
  • To gradually decline or waste away
    Atrophy
  • Nonsense
    Drivel
  • Comfort in a time of stress or sadness
    Solace
  • To travel across or through
    Traverse