excel vocab

• barge

  a large low boat
• skiff


  small boat
• obligation


  A legal or moral responsibility or duty
• husky


  big and strong
• burly


  (adj.) big and strong; muscular
• laudable


  praiseworthy
• coagulate


  thicken; congeal; clot
• seep


  pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
• vigilant


  on the alert; watchful
• veer


  (v.) to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve
• abhor


  to hate
• exertion


  physical or mental effort
• decree


  An order having the force of law
• maltreat


  (v.) to abuse, use roughly or crudely
• petulant


  peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
• jaded


  wearied, worn-out, dulled
• tatty


  old and in bad condition
• docile


  easy to teach or manage
• forfeit


  Surrender or lose as a result of an error, crime, or failure to fulfill an obligation
• plumage


  feathers of a bird
• dejected


  sad, depressed
• coincide


  to happen at the same time
• spinster


  an elderly unmarried woman
• ruddiness


  a healthy reddish color
• basalt


  a dark, fine-grained rock
• apex


  (n.) the highest point, tip
• valiant


  brave, courageous
• hysteria


  a temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences
• morose


  having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable
• grotesque


  (adj.) unnatural, distorted; bizarre, ugly
• potent


  powerful; highly effective
• ominous


  threatening
• lethargic


  acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
• noxious


  harmful; poisonous; lethal
• garrulous


  talkative
• stentorian


  very loud
• prodigious


  enormous in size, quantity, degree; marvelous, amazing
• copious


  abundant; plentiful
• heinous


  (adj.) very wicked, offensive, hateful
• avaricious


  greedy