vocab notebook

• Sullen


  gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
• Inane


  lacking significance, meaning or point: Silly
• Mellifluous


  having a smooth rich flow
• Inundates


  overwhelm
• Terse


  using few words: devoid of superfluity
• Incendiary:


  tending to excite or inflame:

  Inflamatory
• Atrium: 


  a rectangular open patio around which a house is built
• Derelict:


  Run-Down
• Tenuous: 


  having little substance or strength: flimsy, weak
• Warden: 


  watchman, porter
• Gauge:


  Dimensions, size
• Bravado


  blustering swaggering conduct
• Aperture: 


  an opening or open space: Hole
• Dissipate: 


  to break up and scatter or vanish
• Stentorian


  extremely loud
• Infinitesimal


  immeasurably or incalculably small
• Empyrean:


  the true and ultimate heavenly paradise
• Asceticism: 


  rigorous abstention from self indulgance
• Prefecture: 


  the office or term of office of a prefect
• Virulent:


  full of malice : malignant
• Thrashed:


  to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip: flog
• Evanescence:


  the process or fact of evaneshing
• Demurs:


  the act or an instance of

  objecting : protest
• Interminable:


  having or seeming to

  have no end
• Sobriquets: 


  a descriptive name or epithet: nickname
• Elliptical:


  of relating to, or shaped

  like an ellipse
• Exploits:


  Deed: Act
• Lateral:


  of or relating to the side
• Monolithic:


  of, relating to, or resembling a monolih: Huge, Massive
• Coalesced:


  to grow together