Kyle

4th period

Unit 4 vocabulary

Affable

• diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"

Aggrandize

Amorphous • having no definite form or distinct shape;

"amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"

• lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies

• without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous mineral"; "amorphous structure"

Aura • a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light)

that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure

• an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

• air: a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"

Contraband • goods whose importation or

exportation or possession is prohibited by law

• bootleg: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

Erudite • having or showing profound

knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"

gossamer• a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture • ethereal: characterized by unusual lightness and

delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

• cobweb: filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

• diaphanous: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

infer• deduce: reason by deduction; establish by

deduction • generalize: draw from specific cases for more

general cases • deduce: conclude by reasoning; in logic • guess: guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He

guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

• understand: believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

Inscrutable • cryptic: of an obscure nature; "the

new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"

Insular • relating to or characteristic of or situated

on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

• suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels

• narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

Irrevocable • incapable of being retracted or

revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare

Propensity • leaning: an inclination to do

something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

• proclivity: a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"

• aptness: a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread"

Querulous • fretful: habitually

complaining; "a whiny child"

Remonstrate

• argue in protest or opposition • present and urge reasons in opposition • call on the carpet: censure severely or

angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

Repudiate

• disown: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

• refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"

• refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt" • reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She

repudiated the accusations"

Resilient

• recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like • bouncy: elastic; rebounds readily;

"clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"

Reverberate • resound: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" • have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher

reverberated throughout my adult life" • be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves

reverberate as far away as the end of the building" • reflect: to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected

well in this auditorium" • bounce: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball

bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

• treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"

Scurrilous • given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed; coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous

Sedulous • assiduous: marked by care and

persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"

Sleazy

• of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

• bum: of very poor quality; flimsy • seamy: morally degraded; "a seedy district";

"the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"