English Vocab 1/25

• obsequious (adj): promptly obedient and submissive, cringing, fawning, compliant to excess.
• aegis (n): support, protection, control, or security from harm or harmful things
• inchoate (adj): not yet completely developed; rudimentary, lacking order due to its newness.
• solicitous (adj): characterized by or showing interest or concern
• neophyte (n): a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief
• pertinacious (adj): holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute, or objectively persistent
• spurious (adj): not genuine, authentic, or true; counterfeit; not from the claimed or pretended source
• oscillate (v): to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does; to vary or vacillate between different opinions, beliefs, conditions, etc.
• vituperative (adj): describing harsh and abusive speech; denouncing violently.
• imbroglio: a complicated and embarrassing state of things; a confused or complicated disagreement or misunderstanding.