Vocabulary List

• Acrimonious - Angry or Bitter
• Adroit - Skillful
• Affable - Friendly
• Alimentary - Nourishment or Sustenance
• Amalgam - Mixture or Blend
• Ambivalent - Mixed feelings
• Ameliorate - Make better
• Amicable - Agreeable
• Anachronism - from another time
• Aplomb - Assurance or Self-confidence
• Arid - Dry out
• Ascetic - Abstinent or Non-indulgent
• Assuage - To ease
• Autocrat - A ruler with absolute power
• Avarice - Extremely Greedy
• Axiom - Accepted truth
• Beautitude - State of Bliss
• Beleaguer - To cause problem for
• Belie - Give false impression
• Belligerent - Hostile
• Benediction - Blessing
• Bowdlerize - Censor or Expurgate
• Brazen - Bold
• Brusque - abrupt in one's mannerisms
• Cacophony - Harsh mixture of sounds
• Capacious - Spacious
• Castigate - Punish
• Caustic - Corrosive; Sarcastic
• Cerebral - Intellectual
• Chaff - Worthless thing; husk of corn
• Chicanery - The use of deception
• Chimerical - Illusory or Imagination
• Compunction - Feeling remorse
• Concomitant - naturally accompanying
• Coniferous - needle-like or scale-like
• Conjecture - Guess, Speculation consternation anxious, dismayed
• Contentious - likely to cause argument
• Contiguous - Next or Together
• Contingent - Subject to change
• Convivial - friendly or lively