Vocabulary

• Alacrity- Liveliness and Eagerness 
• Apocryphal- Not true but not widely believed 
• Baleful- Deadly, foreboding 
• Contumacious- Rebellious 
• Effulgent- Brilliant radiant 
• Indolent- Lazy 
• Insidious- Subtle dangerous 
• Jocular- Jesting, playful 
• Lugubrious- Looking sad 
• Luminescent- Shining with light 
• Mendacious- Not truthful 
• Nadir- Lowest Point of anything 
• Panacea- Cure for all ills 
• Plethora- Extreme excess 
• Redolent- Aromatic 
• Repudiate- Refuse to acknowledge as valid 
• Salient- Conspicuous, prominent, or important 
• Superfluous- More than needed, desired or requires 
• Voracious- Ravenous, Insatiable 
• Truculent- Definitely aggressive 
• Ambivalent- Having mixed feelings about something; uncertain or indecisive
• Cogent- Persuasive, convincing
• Cacophonous- Loudly discordant noise
• Zenith- Peak, Highest Point 
• Erudite- having or showing great knowledge or learning
• Mellifluous- Pleasing to the ear; musical