Vocabulary

• archer


  Pomething that differs from the nom
• 1974, Poland won the World Cup
• The success turned out to be an aberation, and Poland have not won a World Cup since
• abhor


  Hate, detest
• acquiesce


  To agree without protesting
• alacrity


  Eagerness, speed
• appease


  To calm, satisfy
• arcane


  Obscure, secret, known only by a few
• avarice


  Excessive greed
• brazen


  Excessively bold, brash, clear and obvious
• brusque


  Short, abrupt, dismissive
• cajole


  To urge, coax
• callous


  Harsh, cold, unfeeling
• candour


  Honesty, frankness
• chide


  To voice disapproval
• coherent


  Logically consistent
• confidant


  A person entrusted with secrets
• conspire


  To plot, scheme
• cumulative


  Increasing, building upon itself
• cynical


  Believing the worst of others, especially that all acts are selfish
• despot


  One who has total power and uses it brutally
• diligent


  Showing care in doing one's work
• ecstatic


  Overjoyed, elated
• elegiac


  Mournful, melancholic, moving
• embezzle


  To steal money by falsifying records
• empathy


  Sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own
• estrangement


  Alienation, hostility
• extol


  To praise, revere
• fabricate


  To make up, invent
• feral


  Wild, untamed
• forsake


  To give up, abandon
• fractious


  Unruly, unmanageable
• furtive


  Secretive, stealthy
• gluttony


  Overindulgence in food or drink
• gratuitous


  Uncalled for, unwarranted
• haughty


  Disdainfully proud
• hypocrisy


  Pretending to believe what one does not
• impeccable


  Exemplary, flawless
• impudent


  Insolent, impertinent
• inadvertent


  Unintentional, accidental