Vocab List #1

 

Adulterate – to make impure by adding extraneous, improper or inferior ingredients

Aesthetic – of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste

Affectation – a show, pretense, or display

Affinity – a natural attraction of feeling of kinship, relationship by marriage

Alleviate – to make more bearable, to relieve

Anachronism – one that is out of its proper or Chronological order

Antithesis – direct contrast, opposition; the direct opposite

Appease – to soothe, to calm

Ardent – characterized by a warm of feeling, passionate, devotion or desire

Aspersion – an unfavorable or damaging remake; slander

Assail – to attack w/ violent blows; assault

Bellicose – warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious

Bequeath – to leave or give by will; hand on

Bombast – Pompous speech writing

Buttress – a structure (brick or stone) built against a wall for support or reinforcement

Conjecture – inference or judgment based on incomplete evidence; guesswork

Castigate – to inflict severe punishment on; to criticize severely

Charlatan – a person who makes elaborate, and often-voluble claims to skill or knowledge

Chicanery – deception by trickery or sophistry; a trick

Clout – a blow esp. w/ the first to hit

Cogent – appealing to the intellect or power of reasoning

Colloquial – conversational; spoken language or to informal writing