English Vocab

• Abet


  (verb) to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing
• Appease


  (verb) to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe
• Ambivalent


  (adj) having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action
• Banter


  (noun) an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery
• Bigot


  (noun) one who is intolerant of differences in others
• Concur


  (verb) to accord in opinion; agree
• Credence


  (noun) belief as to the truth of something
• Dilemma


  (noun) a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives
• Dilettante


  (noun) a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler
• Disparity 


  (noun) lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference
• Docile


  (adj) easily managed or handled; tractable
• Dole


  (verb) to give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out)
• Gauche


  (adj) lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless
• Jaundiced


  (adj) affected with or exhibiting prejudice, as from envy or resentment
• Jettison


  (verb) to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency; to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard
• Libation


  (noun) pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity; a drink (humorous); an intoxicating beverage, as wine, especially when drunk in ceremonial or celebrate situations as an act or instance of drinking such a beverage
• Negligence


  (noun) fail to take proper care of something
• Opus


  (noun) a creative work, especially a numbered composition
• Ostensible


  (adj) outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended
• Rancor


  (noun) bitter, rankling, resentment or ill will; hatred; malice