1. Weekly Words

2. Acrimonious Acrimonious Adjective
Bitter or sarcastic in temper, manner or tone
This book is an acrimonious attack on the present administration.

3. Acumen Acumen (noun) Keenness of mind or judgment
She shows great acumen as a businesswoman.

4. Affinity Affinity Noun A natural attraction or liking
The young couple had a great affinity for each other.

5. Apathy Apathy (noun) A lack of interest, concern, or desire to act
He views his current grades with a great degree of apathy.

6. Capricious Adjective
Tending to change suddenly, unexpectedly, and for no apparent reason, unpredictable
ble.

7. Cognizant
Adjective
Aware
After his injury, the man was barely cognizant of his surroundings.

8. Adjective Stating opinions or beliefs in a positive and haughty manner.
Dogmatic
The dogmatic teacher would not let anyone question his statements.

9. Epiphany (noun)
To suddenly understand a concept.
After reading the book, he had an epiphany about the events leading to the American Revolution.

10. Adjective Useless, hopeless, or ineffective
Futile
Adjective Useless, hopeless, or ineffective
He tried to resist eating the chocolate cake, but it was futile.

11. Incessant
Adjective
Continuing or non-stop
The incessant ringing of his cell phone kept everyone in the office from being able to concentrate.

12. Innocuous adjective Harmless; innocent
The snake looked scary, but it was really innocuous.

13. Deceitful; working in a hidden but harmful manner
Insidious
Adjective
Deceitful; working in a hidden but harmful manner
His insidious plan to hide money from his family wasn’t working out so well.

14. Mitigate verb
To make milder or less severe or painful
The nurse tried to mitigate the suffering of the injured child.

15. Morose
Adjective
The old man was known for being extremely morose.

16. Ostentatious
Adj. Done to impress others or to attract attention;
The large bags that the shoppers were carrying were incredibly ostentatious.

17. Plausible adjective
Seeming to be true, honest or worth of trust; believable.
Her excuse was plausible, but I still had my doubts.

18. Precocious Adj.: Developed or matured earlier than usual
My son’s reading habits are incredibly precocious.

19. Quiescent adjective In a state of inactivity or rest.
He is in a quiescent frame of mind.

20. Ramification noun
The act or process of dividing; an effect or consequence that results from a situation or statement.
What are the ramification of his plan?

21. Redundant
Adjective
Using more word than necessary to express an idea; wordiness; unnecessary; superfluous.
In an attempt to meet length requirements, the girl’s paper was very redundant.

22. The written statement was refutable..
adjective
Refutable
Able to be proven wrong or false
The written statement was refutable..

23. Rudimentary Elementary; in the beginning or early stage of
Adjective
Elementary; in the beginning or early stage of
development; incompletely or imperfectly
developed.
A penquin has
Rudimentary
Wings.

24. The man had a very sanguine personality.
Sanguine adjective
Cheerful and optimistic; having a red color; ruddy
The man had a very sanguine personality.

25. Unscrupulous adjective
Showing no regard for what is right
The unscrupulous businessman cheated his customers.

26. Ubiquitous adjective being everywhere at once, or seeming to be everywhere at once The famous actress was ubiquitous when she had a new movie coming out.

27. Surreptitious adjective
Done by secret or sly means
The secret society had a surreptitious meeting.

28. Terse adjective brief and to the point; concise Her terse reply surprised her friends.

29. Wanton adjective marked by extreme thoughtlessness or ill will; immoral; not controlled; unruly
At first the student was apathetic, but then she began showing wanton misbehavior.

30. Zenith noun the highest or greatest point This performance was the zenith of the musician’s career.

31. Expedite verb to speed up the process or progress of; to do quickly and efficiently The man asked the doctor to expedite the exam because he was in a hurry.