core.vocab.1

• AMBIVALENT


  Mixed feelings
• ANOMALY and ATYPICAL


  A deviation from the norm/typical
• SARCASTIC and SARDONIC


  Derisive mocking comments
• DEARTH, PAUCITY


  A scarcity or shortage
• PRATTLE


  To babble incessantly
• WRY


  Dry humor
• UNCONVENTIONAL, UNORTHODOX


  Not ordinary or typical
• PAINSTAKING, METICULOUS, EXACTING


  Highly detailed
• AUDACIOUS


  Very bold; daring
• INDIFFERENT, APATHETIC


  Lack of interest or concern
• DIFFIDENT


  Lacking self-confidence
• PRAGMATIC


  Practical, sensible/with wisdom
• EVOCATION


  An imaginative recreation
• PRESUMPTUOUS


  Overbearing; impertinently bold
• RECALCITRAN, OBDURATE

  Very stubborn, defiant/refuse to change/resist
• BOON


  A timely benefit
• BANE


  A source of harm
• CLANDESTINE, SURREPTITIOUS


  Secretive; not aboveboard; covert/not open
• AFFABLE, AMIABLE, GENIAL, GREGARIOUS


  Agreeable; friendly
• CONFOUNDED, PERPLEXED, MYSTIFIED


  Puzzled; confused
• PRODIGIOUS


  Enormous; massive
• AMBIGUOUS


  Unclear; not definitive
• REPROACH, CENSURE


  To scold; rebuke
• NOSTALGIA


  A sentimental longing for the past
• CONJECTURE, SUPPOSITION

  An inference
• OBSOLETE


  No longer in use
• AUSPICIOUS


  Very favorable
• MOROSE, DESPONDENT

  Very depressed
• IMPASSE


  Failure to reach an agreement
• ANACHRONISM


  Not in the proper time period
• BELIE


  To give a false impression
• MITIGATE, MOLLIFY, ASSUAGE, ALLEVIATE


  To ease; relieve; lessen
• COVET


  To strongly desire; to crave
• ANTITHESIS and ANTIPODAL


  Direct opposite
• PROTOTYPE


  An original model
• ALOOF


  Detached; reserved
• ANTECEDENT and FORERUNNER


  A preceding event
• IMPLAUSIBLE


  Not believable
• PRUDENT


  Careful; cautious
• AESTHETIC


  An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive