VOCABULARY
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Vocabulary is an integral part of the ExamIQ curriculum. Throughout the course, students learn in excess of two thousand words. Moreover, students learn how to constructively apply the vocabulary in the writing of sentences, paragraphs, and ultimately essays. Vocabulary words below are but a small sample assigned throughout the course, yet must be learned by the prospective students prior to attending the first class to maximize the comprehension of the material taught in class.
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary List 1
Artisan skilled worker
Adulation high praise or admiration
Pedant nerd; gets his knowledge only form books
Philistine uncultured person only interested in materialistic possessions
Paragon model of perfection
Ascetic practicing self-denial
Ostracize to ban from the public
Sycophant one who sucks up
Parsimony stinginess, frugality
Impertinent insulting
Conflagration great fire
Maelstrom whirlpool, turbulent or violent situation
Torpor sluggishness
Carnage destruction of life (carn = fresh/meat)
Unwonted unaccustomed, unexpected or unusual
Indolent lazy
Iridescent displaying rainbow like colors
Veracious truthful
Substantiate to confirm
Incredulity disbelief (cred = believe)
Innocuous harmless (noc or nox = harm)
Tonic strong (ex. taste), something that lifts spirit
Detrimental harmful
Disinclination unwillingness
Reprimand scold
Calumny ruining someone's reputation
Dearth not enough
Plethora excess
Insurgence rebellion
Oligarchy government by few
Nonentity no importance
Clemency leniency; mercy
Induce to bring about
Gusto enthusiasm
Breadth width
Discomfiture feeling of embarrassment or awkwardness
Perspicacity insight
Forbearance patience
Fatuous foolish
Salubrious healthful
Litigation lawsuit
Clandestine secret
Conventional typical
Specious seemingly reasonable but incorrect
Indigent poor
Affluent wealthy
Persevere to be stubborn
Retaliate to get revenge
Effervescent excited
Auspicious favoring success
Illusive deceiving
Deprecate to protest against
Exacerbate to worsen
Obscure dark and unclear
Incoherent illogical
Capricious hard to please
Pivotal vital, important
Debacle downfall
Deluge a flood
Deferential courteous (want to please other)
Munificent generous
Exorbitant excessive (too much)
Imperious bossy
Convivial festive, jovial (lively) (viv = life)
Callous hardened, unfeeling
Inordinate unrestrained
Stringent binding
Furtive sneaky
Meticulous excessively careful
Vigilant watchful
Monolithic uniform, following same customs
Copious plentiful
Acrimonious caustic; stinging
Didactic teaching
Sporadic occurring irregularly
Jaded tiring, fatigued
Avid showing great enthusiasm, greedy
Raucous harsh and shrill (ex. noise)
Swarthy dark, dusky
Cordial gracious
Arboretum place where different tree varieties are exhibited
Discursive digressing
Exonerate to clear form blame
Timorous fearful
Rancorous hateful, bitter
Abet to aid and encourage
Ebb recede, lessen
Pugnacious like to fight (pug = fight)
Vainglorious excessively conceited
Pernicious causing harm or ruin
Repudiate to reject with disapproval or condemnation
Delineate to portray, to depict, to show
Enmity a feeling of hatred, ill will
Vehement strongly emotional; intense or passionate
Comprehensive thorough, all inclusive
Objective unbiased, without feelings
Qualify to limit (secondary definition)
Erudite characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly
Abbreviate shorten, abridge
Abstinence act of refraining from
Adversity misfortune
Aesthetic having to do with beauty
Amicable friendly
Anachronistic not in the correct historical time period
Anecdote short, often funny account of an event
Anonymous nameless
Antagonist opponent
Arid extremely dry
Assiduous hard working
Asylum sanctuary, safe place
Benevolent friendly, helpful
Camaraderie trust among friends
Censure to criticize harshly
Circuitous indirect, roundabout
Clairvoyant able to see the future
Collaborate to work together
Compassion sympathy
Compromise to settle differences
Condescending patronizing, demeaning others
Conditional provisional, contingent, depending on a condition
Conformist one who follows customs
Congregation group of people
Convergence joining of parts
Deleterious harmful
Demagogue leader who appeals to emotions of his people
Digression straying from main point
Diligent hard-working; assiduous
Discredit dishonor, disgrace
Disdain to regard with scorn
Divergent variant, moving apart
Empathy sharing of feelings
Emulate to follow an example
Enervating tiring weakening
Enhance improve, augment
Ephemeral momentary, fleeting
Evanescent short-lived (as an image)
Exasperation irritation, frustration
Exemplary outstanding
Extenuating guilt-diminishing, lessening or reducing
Florid flushed, ornate
Fortuitous lucky
Frugal thrifty, economically conservative
Hackneyed overused, cliché
Haughty arrogant, condescending
Hedonist pleasure seeker
Hypothesis theory requiring proof
Impetuous rash, impulsive
Impute to attribute to someone
Incompatible unable to work together
Inconsequential trivial
Inevitable unavoidable, certain
Integrity honesty, decency
Intrepid fearless, adventurous
Intuitive instinctive, untaught
Jubilation joy, exultation
Lobbyist persuader of legislators
Longevity long life
Mundane ordinary, common
Nonchalant calm, casual
Novice beginner
Opulent wealthy
Orator speaker
Ostentatious displaying wealth
Parched dehydrated
Perfidious disloyal, untrustworthy
Precocious talented beyond one's age
Pretentious pompous, self-important
Procrastinate to delay unnecessarily
Prosaic run-of-the-mill, commonplace
Prosperity wealth, success
Provocative inflammatory, calling forth a reaction
Prudent wise, careful
Querulous irritable
Reclusive withdrawn, preferring to live in isolation
Reconciliation agreement after a quarrel
Renovation state of being renewed
Resilient quick to recover
Restrained controlled, restricted
Reverence profound respect
Sagacity wisdom
Scrutinize to observe carefully
Spontaneity impulsive action
Spurious phony, false
Submissive compliant, obedeient
Substantiate to verify, confirm
Subtle elusive, sly, ambiguous, understated
Superficial lacking in depth, shallow, on the surface
Superfluous more than enough, surplus
Suppress to end an activity
Surreptitious secret, stealthy
Tactful diplomatic, polite
Tenacious persistent, resolute
Transient temporary, fleeting
Venerable respectable due to age
Vindicate to clear from blame, exonerate, acquit
Wary watchful, alert (of the situation), aware
