English Spring Midterm: Vocab

Adept, Adeptly

Very skilled, expert

Fortitude

Mental and emotional strength facing difficulty

Furtive

Trying not to be noticed, quiet

Glutton, Gluttony, Gluttonous

A person or acts of eats too much

Inscrutable, Inscrutably

Not capable of being understood, mysterious

Melancholy

Gloomy or a feeling of gloom

Nuance, Nuanced

Little things that define or separate things, a subtle distinction

Pragmatic, Pragmatism

Practical, useful (refers to an action or outlook on something)

Punctilious

Meticulous, attentive to detail

Relinquish

Give up something with reluctance, abandon regretfully

Alacrity

Promptness, eagerness to comply, pleasure to please

Bombastic, Bombastically

Over-the-top, a lot of show but no substance

Debacle

A great disaster, complete failure

Debilitate, Debilitating

To weaken, delay, hinder,

Exhort, Exhortation

Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something, a communication of urge to do something

Insipid, Insipidly

Lacking flavor, dull

Prosaic, Prosaically

Ordinary, mundane, lacking beauty

Shroud

A burial cloth, or to envelope or obscure something

Superfluous, Superfluously

Unnecessary due to having too much

Uncouth, Uncouthly

Unrefined in appearance, or rude in conduct and speech, lacking manners

Amenable

Willing to do something, responsive to advice

Epiphany

A sudden realization of truth

Incredulous

Unwilling or unable to believe

Intrepid, Intrepidly

Having or showing courage and braveness

Malice, Malicious

A desire to harm others or see them suffer, evil

Poignant, Poignantly, Poignancy

Affecting or stirring up emotions

Prolific

Producing a plentiful abundance

Sagacious, Sage, Sagacity

Wise, wise or wise person, wisdom, all respectively

Vanquish

Conquer, defeat, overcome

Verbose

Containing more words than necessary, wordy