Weekly Words
Acrimonious Acrimonious Adjective Bitter or sarcastic in temper, manner or tone This book is an acrimonious attack on the present administration.
Acumen Acumen (noun) Keenness of mind or judgment She shows great acumen as a businesswoman.
Affinity Affinity Noun A natural attraction or liking The young couple had a great affinity for each other.
Apathy Apathy (noun) A lack of interest, concern, or desire to act He views his current grades with a great degree of apathy.
Capricious Adjective Tending to change suddenly, unexpectedly, and for no apparent reason, unpredictable ble.
Cognizant Adjective Aware After his injury, the man was barely cognizant of his surroundings.
Adjective Stating opinions or beliefs in a positive and haughty manner. Dogmatic The dogmatic teacher would not let anyone question his statements.
Epiphany (noun) To suddenly understand a concept. After reading the book, he had an epiphany about the events leading to the American Revolution.
Adjective Useless, hopeless, or ineffective Futile Adjective Useless, hopeless, or ineffective He tried to resist eating the chocolate cake, but it was futile.
Incessant Adjective Continuing or non-stop The incessant ringing of his cell phone kept everyone in the office from being able to concentrate.
Innocuous adjective Harmless; innocent The snake looked scary, but it was really innocuous.
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.
Mitigate verb To make milder or less severe or painful The nurse tried to mitigate the suffering of the injured child.
Morose Adjective The old man was known for being extremely morose.
Ostentatious Adj. Done to impress others or to attract attention; The large bags that the shoppers were carrying were incredibly ostentatious.
Plausible adjective Seeming to be true, honest or worth of trust; believable. Her excuse was plausible, but I still had my doubts.
Precocious Adj.: Developed or matured earlier than usual My son’s reading habits are incredibly precocious.
Quiescent adjective In a state of inactivity or rest. He is in a quiescent frame of mind.
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?
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.
The written statement was refutable.. adjective Refutable Able to be proven wrong or false The written statement was refutable..
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.
The man had a very sanguine personality. Sanguine adjective Cheerful and optimistic; having a red color; ruddy The man had a very sanguine personality.
Unscrupulous adjective Showing no regard for what is right The unscrupulous businessman cheated his customers.
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.
Surreptitious adjective Done by secret or sly means The secret society had a surreptitious meeting.
Terse adjective brief and to the point; concise Her terse reply surprised her friends.
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.
Zenith noun the highest or greatest point This performance was the zenith of the musician’s career.
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.