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Vocabulary Unit 4Quiz on 10/30
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Affable
•Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to . (Friendly, Nice to be around!)
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Aggrandize
•To increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater
•Many would say Kanye helped to aggrandize Kim Kardashian.
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Amorphous
•Shapeless, no definite form, without organization or cohesion
The amorphous group of preschoolers were hard to contain once we reached the park.
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Archetype• An original model on which something was
patterned or replicated
• Elsa fits the archetype of rags to riches in Frozen.
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Aura• An atmosphere, or distinct personal quality
(Vibes)
• Jennifer has a typically calm aura about her today.
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Contraband• Illegal traffic, smuggled goods
• If you buy black-market items, most of it is contraband being brought into the US.
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Erudite•Scholarly, learned, bookish, Pedantic (SMART)
•My erudite professor knew everything about British literature and looked like Santa Claus.
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Gossamer
•Thin , light delicate, insubstantial
•Ghosts often are described as wearing gossamer clothing that makes them even more scary.
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Inscrutable•Incapable of being understood; not able to
see through physically.
•Sadie’s smile is inscrutable, making it hard to tell if she is sincere or not.
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Insular• Relating to characteristic of, or situation on an
island, narrow or isolated outlook
• Because he always grew up in the south, he has very insular view of what it is like to live in California.
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Irrevocable
•Incapable of being changed or called back.
•Once a judge has sentenced you for a crime, it seems like an irrevocable punishment.
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Propensity •A natural inclination or predilection
toward. (your natural instinct)
•Many students have a propensity to wait until the last minute to begin working on a task.
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Querulous•Peevish, complaining, fretful (angry,
irritated)
My cousins used to be querulous with each other, always yelling and complaining about having to spend time together.
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Remonstrate•To argue with someone against
something, protest •The Occupy movement remonstrated
against the social and economic inequalities in the US.
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Repudiate•To disown, reject or deny the validity of
•Some repudiate evidence that the US landed on the moon, choosing to believe that it is a conspiracy.
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Resilient
•Able to return to an original shape or form/recover quickly
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Reverberate
•To re-echo, reflect or be reflected, repeatedly
•In listening to dub step, when the beat drops, it reverberates.
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Scurrilous•Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low, foul mouthed
Today’s society finds scurrilous comedy to be the most humorous.
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Sedulous•Persistent, showing industry and determination
•The Walking Dead characters are very sedulous in their pursuit to stay alive in a zombie apocalypse.
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Sleazy
•Thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quaintly or character.
•Sleazy knockoffs of designer handbags generally fall apart quickly.