Vocabulary Definitions: Expand Your Lexicon

Vocabulary Definitions

• Infinite (adj.) – Without end; unbounded.
• Gibe (v. or n.) – To speak reproachfully or sneeringly; to taunt. A jeer or a taunt.
• Effrontery (n.) – Unwarranted boldness of manner; impudence; audacity.
• Meticulous (adj.) – Extremely careful of details; scrupulous.
• Acerbated (v.) – To embitter; vex; irritate. To make bad tasting.
• Capacious (adj.) – Of large capacity; roomy; spacious.
• Sordid (adj.) – Dirty; wretched; squalid; gross; ignoble.
• Arduous (adj.) – Difficult; with great exertion or labor.
• Hallowed (adj.) – Sacred; holy.
• Acclimate (v.) – To accustom or become accustomed to a new environment, situation or condition.
• Guttural (adj.) – Rasping and gurgling; of the throat.
• Deploy (v.) – To send or station more widely. To extend or spread out.
• Peculiar (adj.) – Exclusive; significant of one person only; add or different.
• Baneful (adj.) – Harmful; threatening danger.
• Foible (n.) – A minor character weakness; A bland offense.
• Opus (n.) – A work, especially one of significance in music, literature, etc.
• Lupine (adj.) – Wolf-like.
• Pellucid (adj.) – Clear; easily; understood.
• Ancillary (adj.) – Of subordinate or auxiliary relationship. In addition to main unit, worker, influence, etc.
• Magnate (n.) – A person of considerate rank, prestige, influence, etc.
• Apposite (adj.) – Suitable, fit, appropriate.
• Jubilant (adj.) – Full of triumphant joy; rejoicing.
• Supplication (n.) – A humble request.
• Penchant (n.) – A strong preference or liking.
• Kiosk (n.) – A small, open booth or stand.
• Apprehensive (adj.) – Troubled, anxious, uneasy.
• Ecology (n.) – The science of relationships between living things and their environment.
• Insular (adj.) – Severely bounded; narrow minded.
• Misnomer (n.) – An incorrect or inappropriate designation of some or something.
• Culinary (adj.) – Related to cooking.
• Rhetorical (adj.) – Pertaining to the use of words artificially; said merely for effect rather than information.
• Awry (adj.) – Turned aside; amiss; wrong.
• Nonpareil (adj.) – Without rival or equal.
• Impeach (v.) – To discredit someone’s wrong doing in office.
• Canard (n.) – A deliberate untruth; a misleading report, so intended.
• Candid (adj.) – Frank, sincere; impartial; unposed.
• Catharsis (n.) – A purging or relieving of physical or emotional symptoms.
• Catholic (adj.) – All-inclusive; universal; widespread.
• Discomfiture (n.) – Defeat; frustration; rout.
• Obsessed (v.) – Preoccupied; burdened in mind to the exclusion of other thoughts; haunted.
• Quantum (n.) – An elemental unit of energy; a measurable amount, a sufficiency.
• Quatrain (n.) – A verse or stanza of four lines.
• Rabid (adj.) – Extremely angry; raging; fanatical; afflicted with the disease of rabies.
• Rankle (v.) – To irritate; to cause or have deep – seated, smoldering anger, dislike, bitterness, etc.
• Milieu (n.) – A social environment or setting.
• Militate (v.) – To contend or operate against; to oppose.
• Caucus (n.) – A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
• Mortify (v.) – To injure one’s pride or dignity.
• Nadir (n.) – Direct opposite of the highest point in space.
• Naive (adj.) – Simple and unaffected, not sophisticated.