VOCABULARY DECK

• acrimonious is to be angry / bitter
• adroit - skillful
• affable - friendly
• alimentary - nourishment/sustenance
• amalgam: a mixture or blend
• ambivalent: mixed feelings
• ameliorate: make better
• amicable: agreeable, friendly
• anachronism: from another time
• aplomb: self-confidence, poise, or assurance; self-possession
• arid: dry, having little to no rain
• ascetic: abstinent, non-indulgent
• assuage: to ease
• autocrat: a ruler who has absolute power and is not answerable to anyone
• avarice: extremely greedy
• axiom: accepted truth
• beatitude: a state of happiness and contentment, especially in the presence of God
• beleaguer: cause problems or difficulties for
• belie: give false impression
• belligerent: hostile
• benediction: blessing
• bowdlerize: censor, expurgate
• brazen: showing no shame or embarrassment; bold and confident
• brusque: abrupt in one's mannerisms
• bungler: a person who makes a lot of mistakes and is not very good at doing things
• cacophony: harsh mixture of sounds
• capacious: spacioous
• castigate: punish
• caustic: corrosive, sarcastic
• cerebral: intellectual
• chaff: worthless thing, husk of corn
• chicanery: use of disception
• chimerical: illusory, imagination
• compunction: feeling remorse
• concomitant: naturally accompanying
• coniferous: needle-like, scale-like
• conjecture: guess, speculation
• consternation: anxious, dismay
• contentious: likely to cause argument
• contiguous: next, together