| A | B |
|---|
| adoration | adoring someone (Tom's adoration of Lucy was amazing...He adored her...) |
| conciliate | to become agreeable; to overcome distrust (You might conciliate an angry competitor) |
| consternation | dismay (Your mother expressed her consternation over your poor grades.) |
| cajole | persuade (Mom was cajoled into taking us for ice cream.) |
| contagion | a disease that spreads (The flu is a contagion.) |
| contemplate | think hard (Take time to contemplate before making important decisions.) |
| callow | immature or inexperienced (A callow young man is of no use to the ship's captain.) |
| courier | messenger |
| capsized | turn over (The tiny boat capsized in the huge waves.) |
| demesne | possession of your own land |
| din | loud, disconnected noise (I cannot hear the spellers over the din of the classroom.) |
| ecstacy | extreme happiness (Chocolate is ecstacy for many people.) |
| grievous | causing great sorrow (His death came as grievous news.) |
| egotistical | overly concerned with yourself; stuck up |
| hydrophoby | rabies or an unnatural fear of water |
| famished | very hungry |
| impel | to force or drive forward (A prize of $5000 might impel you to work harder for good grades.) |
| feign | fake (He feigned injury to get out of doing work.) |
| imperious | overbearing; like a dictator (Joseph is an imperious person.) |
| ferocious | very fierce (The ferocious lion...) |
| incarnate | embodied in flesh or in human form (That teacher is the Devil incarnate!) |
| jugular | the throat (If you want to kill a moose, go for his jugular!) |
| palpitant | fast heart beat (The race made her palpitant.) |
| lugubrious | mournful, gloomy, especially exaggerated (The lugubrious songs of lost love...) |
| pandemonium | loud crazy noise |
| malinger | fake illness to get out of doing something |
| perambulate | to walk through (We could perambulate through the snow, or we could ski.) |
| morose | gloomy |
| pertinacious | stubborn; resolute; persistent (Andrew can be pertinacious when he wants the vocab words on Quia.) |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion (Even though Andrew is pertinacious, I could be obdurate and not put the vocab words on Quia.) |
| primordial | existing from the beginning (Sometimes we call oil "primordial goo" because it was on the earth very early on.) |
| obliterate | wipe out (If you obliterate your tracks, no one will know you walked through the snow.) |
| progeny | descendent or offspring |
| ramshackle | barely holding together (the ramshackle cabin) |
| superfluous | extra (the 12th man on the team was superfluous because we only need 11 people. |
| rashness | acting too quickly (He made a rash promise.) |
| supremacy | being supreme; having supreme power |
| realm | kingdom |
| toil | work (He toiled in the fields all day.) |
| remonstrance | traces |
| repugnant | distasteful or offensive (The bad apple was repugnant to me.) |
| treachery | evil or difficult (The treacherous walk around the cliff...) |
| salient | conspicuous (He has some salient traits -- traits that stand out.) |
| truce | an agreement for peace |
| veranda | porch or lanai |
| vigil | to wait or watch (We kept vigil over the dying man. |
