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hello

everyone today I have a new kind of

lesson for

you you don't need to look at the

screen this lesson is designed to help

you learn English in your

sleep listen to this lesson at a low

volume close your eyes and

relax in this lesson we're going to

learn learn Advanced English

vocabulary it is said that you need to

listen to the same word seven times in

order to remember

it while you sleep you will hear new

vocabulary their

definitions and some example

sentences these will be repeated seven

times while you

sleep I recommend listen listening to

this lesson about 20 minutes before you

go to

sleep let's

start

aberation

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an


aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of in insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas

verb to agree without

protesting they were compelled to aces

in a government which they did not

regard as

just 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed

they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse


with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an AM amble personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few

the corrupt politician hid a loophole

within the Arcane language of the

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legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

literature

avarest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for

power the man's aest led him to amass an

enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie

the teacher condemned the student's

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

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work

brasque

adjective
short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brasque Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his colleagues

since she had burned so many bridges

with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

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her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

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flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

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much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold unfeeling

he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative
cander

noun honesty

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frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

chide

verb to voice

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disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public

investors are very circumspect when

deciding where to put their money these

days the scientists have been


circumspect about making

claims

clandestine adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

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CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

Rendevous their clandestine meetings

went undiscussed Ed for many

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years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible

they failed to come up with a coherent

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strategy I like this novel because of


the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of

complacency during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

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matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest


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Confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

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it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

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body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about


him the holiday has been debased by

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commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

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Freedom

decry

verb to critize ize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government def

IAL

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

Demir

adjective quiet

modest

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reserved though everyone else at the


party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and Demir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride home

people the native speaker often derided

the other teachers

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally

he was a successful basketball coach but

many people regarded him as a petty

despit the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

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orders

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's


work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and Powerful

he is said to have been a good talker

and an eloquent

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preacher

embezzle
verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds

he was caught embezzling money from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

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countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him

bitter historical enmities underly the


present

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violence

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aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

rever gen extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

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character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

did

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fabricate

verb to make up invent something in


order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

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work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything

because the actress was not expecting to

win an award she was flabbergasted when

her name was

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called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the south

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specific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

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principles

fractious

adjective TR some or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive Endeavors


online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

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gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing GR ous

violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

[Music]

hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hotty at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and huy

behavior made people forget just how

talented she
was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

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not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

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another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his


remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

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said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated

she was an implacable enemy of my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive
adjective clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

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lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referees

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

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me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job
infamy

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noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's

gone December 7th 1941 is a day that

will live in infamy for the United

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States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

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infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make


friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

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appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

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thirst

insular

adjective separated and narrow-minded

minded tighten it closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world

only a few people live in their insular

Village in the coldest part of

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Canada

Intrepid
adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

adventurous

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our Intrepid reporter doesn't hesitate

to enter a dangerous territory to get

the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

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attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

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change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every

day she's an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

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aberation

noun something that differs from the

norm sh she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas verb to agree without

[Music]

protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands Al larity

noun

eagerness
speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the
[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

art Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

Avest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune

a person blinded by avarest is unwilling

to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was caught

she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the student

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work
brasque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was brasque

Tom's brusk manner sometimes offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind Cal

ous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative
cander

noun

honesty

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frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politicians cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

chide

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks

the police were very circumspect in

their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money


these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with


a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of

complacency during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted confident


of the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

Confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that Pol ician is known to have

connived at Shady business deals in the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase ver

to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase


his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

Demir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]
reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure

she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and Demir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly scorn

Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it is

okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teachers

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

orders

[Music]

diligent
adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent research

made sure to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job offers

[Music]

when he found out he had won the lottery

the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the wedding

[Music]

his speeches in the chamber were always

eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good


talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records

he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two


[Music]

countries

she denied any personal enmity towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective

having or showing great knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language extol

verb to

praise

Revere Jenny extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my my brother's

accomplishments and ignore all the good

things I
[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work frell

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted

I was caught off guard and too

flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not


expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up

[Music]

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

affertive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal
activity

[Music]

my parents eventually discovered that I

was lying and put an end to my furtive

Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity

that book is a remarkable illustration

of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation

of people's worst nightmares in his

horror

films

hottie

adjective disdainfully
proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hottie at times but she was very

much

loved

the Diva's distant and huy behavior made

people forget just how talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretend in to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy

this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners

she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable


taste

impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question

while he never intended his remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude
insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear sharp Direct

she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective lazy

[Music]

they were indolent and addicted to a

life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referees


inep handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

me

I was amazed at how inept she was at her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

live on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit verb

to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria
innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she meets

he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

appetite

her husband confronted her about her

insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views
my parents insular attitudes make them

very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective

Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure

the man climbed the mountain without any

safety gear and was praised for his

intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate gambler

and will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink


almost every

day she's an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

all

[Music]

aberation

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas

verb to agree without

[Music]
protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amable able and

softspoken

appease

verb to Cal

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local


community she strived to get good grades

to appease her parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

Avest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for power

the man's avarest led him to amass an

enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was


careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the student

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

brasque

adjective short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brusk Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her


mind

callus

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politic 's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

chai

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy


appearance

circumspect ad

Ive

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

CIA

though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to
him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun selfs

satisfied ignorance of danger

Japan ignored the warning signs and

remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may


be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

Confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politici is known to have

connived at Shady business deals in the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at


the cumulative effect that stress has on

the body

[Music]

body

dease

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

commercialism

politicians have debased the meaning of

the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

elders I was taught to always be


deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

Demir

adjective quiet

modest

reserved

though everyone else at the party was

dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and demure the

next deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teacher

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

DED her

whenever they had friends over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty
desperate the company is run by a

benevolent desperate

the despit issued a death sentence for

anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive articulate

moving the best man gave such an


eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher embezzle

[Music]

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters

he has had a hard time forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will
hatred

hostility

there have been Decades of enmity

between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the sub subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

rever Jenny extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do character


[Music]

I got angry when my mother would extol

my brother's accomplishments and ignore

all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to makeup

invent something in order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

work

[Music]

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded astonished
this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake myet vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

affertive

adjective
secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech

that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hottie
adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hotty at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and hotty

Behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty in vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late

so when he punished him for coming in

late one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent
adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant

I can't believe he asked such an

impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

[Music]

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person rude

insolent
impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

[Music]

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable
unqualified I didn't like the referees

inept handling of the

match

I would never want to have that inept

surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad equality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

infamy

[Music]

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit
you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while while I'm naturally

shy my sister has the innate ability to

make friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable thr

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed


off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective

stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink


almost every

day she is an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her hand

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

all

[Music]

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they describe the outbreak of

violence in the area as an

aberration

we considered our defeat to be an

aberration since we'd easily beaten this

team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas
verb to agree without

[Music]

protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to come

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to
cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

aest

noun excessive greed

the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen adjective
excessively bold Brash clear and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the student

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates work

breque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brasque Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her resque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

cajo

verb to urge coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife wife

into making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her


mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

Thief

the murderer's callous lack of remorse

shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politicians cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his


vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations

for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

[Music]

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or
threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coer ver the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

strategy

[Music]

I like this novel because of the fast

pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced


in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant noun

a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

confidant

canive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

[Music]

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon


itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding

doctors are now looking at the

cumulative effect that stress has on the

[Music]

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by


the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority

the young are deferential to their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

Demir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and deir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often deres

the other teacher

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to


deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching

they found the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective oh

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so


many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent preacher

[Music]

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients

she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no


empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to
praise

rever Jenny extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends

shallow people always extol Beauty more

than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic


cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was FL

aasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fra ious

children she had a fractious


relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive Endeavors

online

[Music]

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness


in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hardi

adjective

disdainfully

proud she could be a real primadana and

very hotty at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and hoty

behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hard body in

vain nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does another

[Music]

John's boss was always late so when he

punished him for coming in late one day

John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy
impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent and

objective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

[Music]

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my sister

there was nothing Tony could do to

please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his


parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective

not showing due respect for another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the te te's incisive tone made it

clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited


until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy now

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

States

the man who kidnapped the president's

daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit
verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent

she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable adjective

impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert


for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed off

since you have traveled the world you

shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their in

Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

attitude

[Music]
inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every day

she is an inveterate reader who always

has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration

they described the outbreak of violence

in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to
hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas

verb to agree without

protesting

[Music]

2 years later the president acquiesced

to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness speed

they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along


with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to Cal

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to a appease him when he

starts to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a few

the corrupt politician hid a loophole

within the Arcane language of the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

literature

Avest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for


power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarice is

unwilling to share resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie

the teacher condemned the student Brazen

attempt to plagiarize his classmates's

[Music]

work

brasque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

Brusque Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her breast

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge
coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her her

into drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politicians cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive
CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman guided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the public

investors are very circumspect when

deciding where to put their money these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine and

objective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many


[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was was coerced into giving

my phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible

they failed to come up with a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun selfs

satisfied ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of

complacency during the


outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend

friend you are also my closest

[Music]

Confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past

the police are thought to be conniving

together to get a

conviction
cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

dease

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something

the politician tried to debase his

rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by


manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

deir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile

he loved the way she could be wanton and

sensual one minute then bashful and

Demir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it


is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teachers

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally

he was a successful basketball coach but

many people regarded him as a petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent

adjective

showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated
adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to Disney

Land she was elated at getting so many

job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and Power

powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds

he was caught embezzling money from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy
noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police Poli officer showed

empathy for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him

bitter historical enmities underly the

present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or
learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

rever

Jenny extolled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

did

[Music]

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricate a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to
[Music]

work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage

after living in the forest for 5 years

the child had become feral and no longer

knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything

because the actress was not expecting to

win an award she was flabbergasted when

her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South


[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective

Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

affertive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying

and put an end to my furtive Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable


illustration of with society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired scared of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

[Music]

hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hotty at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and hoty

behavior made people forget

just how talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy
noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so


impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated

she was an implacable enemy of my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent way made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by


incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's


gone December 7th 19 1941 is a day that

will live in infamy for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop

the cold weather inhibits the growth of

the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed


to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her ins iable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separate and

narrow-minded tight knit closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world

only a few people live in their insular

Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless adventurous

[Music]

our Intrepid reporter doesn't hesitate

to enter a dangerous territory to get

the
story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every

day she is an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

aberation

noun something that differs from the

norm

she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an


aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor verb

to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas verb

to agree without

[Music]

protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive


he set the table with

aarcity amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an exp

expert in Arcane kashubian


[Music]

literature

Avest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous Fortune

a person blinded by avarest is unwilling

to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the student

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

brasque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was brast

Tom's brusk manner sometimes offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many


bridges with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge Coke

persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my


cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election

we were surprised by her cander because

she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe believe he didn't

even greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks

the police were very circumspect in

their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine
adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom

for a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced

into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent adjective

logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of


the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was to too distraught

to deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way

and grow oblivious to the hazards that

may be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an in trusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]
Confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about


him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans de cry neglect by

the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure

people were always differential to the

military veteran when he was in

uniform

Demir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure
she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and demure the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly SC

born Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teachers

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

Ord

[Music]

ERS

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's


work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

embezzle
verb to steal money by falsifying

records

he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sens sensitivity to another's

feelings as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy relationships because he

lacks empathy for

others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

countries

[Music]

she denied any personal enmity towards

him bitter historical enmities underly


the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite adjective

having or showing great knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language extol

verb to

praise

Revere Jenny extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabric ated

evidence in order to arrest the


man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work phell

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives Outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted

I was caught off guard and too

flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up
renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fra cious students Hard to

Handle

affertive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity

[Music]

my parents eventually discovered that I

was lying and put an end to my furtive

Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or


drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective un called for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous

exploitation of people's worst

nightmares in his horror

films

Hardy

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hotty at times but she was very

much loved

the Diva's distant and hoty behavior

made people forget just how talented she

was because Chris is so hotty in vain

nobody likes

him
hypocrisy

noun

pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy

this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable manners

she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question

while he never intended his remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of


people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

exwife the boy was implacable with his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear Sharp

direct she was an incisive


critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

me

[Music]

I was amazed at how inept she was at her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or


deed the infamy of his crime

will live on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for


Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

appetite

her husband confronted her about her

insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

[Music]

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tight knit closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views

my parents insular attitudes make them

very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid adjective

Brave in the face of

danger
Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure

the man climbed the mountain without any

safety gear and was praised for his

intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an invest ferate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every

day she's an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

all

[Music]
[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor Injustice

because he always wound up losing he

began to abhor the

sport

Aquas

verb to agree without

[Music]

protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax increase

though the man still had work to do when

his wife told him to come home for

dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

allity

noun
eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local community

she strived to get good grades to

appease her

parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a


few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

legislation

for fun the friends invented an Arcane

language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

avarest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarice and thirst for

power the man's Avest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarice is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold

Brash clear and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the students

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates

work
brasque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brasque Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her Brusque attitude

no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his f favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callus

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderers callous lack of

remorse shocked the


jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice disapproval

she chided him for taking the wrong

train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money


these days

the scientists have been circumspect

about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the CIA

[Music]

a though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into to

doing all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent
intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

strategy

I like this novel because of the fast

pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency noun

self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of

complacency during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of


the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

confidant

kive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction cumul

relative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase
verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good

reputation by spreading false rumors

about him

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

deferential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority

the young are deferential to their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

deir
adjective quiet modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and demure the next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teachers

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

DED her whenever they had friends over

to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty desperate

the company is run by a benevolent

desperate the despit issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders
diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the ing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

preacher

[Music]
embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$110,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will hate

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards
him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

Revere Jenny extolled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meet loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to
deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans flabbergast

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake
verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious children

she had a fractious relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

sly

they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive endeav

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or


drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for gluttony

[Music]

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratui

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hottie at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and huy

behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty in vain no

body likes

him

hypocrisy
noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

another

John's boss was always late so when he

punished him for coming in late one day

John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so


impertinent

that I don't wish to dignify them with

an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister

there was nothing Tony could do to

please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective

not showing due respect for another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective clear

sharp
direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone

made it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter wait

waited until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referees

in handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

noun

the state of being well known for some


bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an inate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she


meets he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective

impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days

the man thought no amount of water would

quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insul

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed

off

since you have traveled the world you

shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the cold oldest part

of

[Music]

Canada
Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

[Music]

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every

day

she is an inveterate reader who always

has a book in her

hand

[Music]
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[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate detest

[Music]

I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aces

verb to agree without

protesting

[Music]

2 years later the president acquiesced

to a tax

increase though the man still had work


to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands Al

larity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective friendly

she had an amiable personality always

ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy

his mother always gives him chocolate to

appease him when he starts to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her
parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure Secret

known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

literature

[Music]

aest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarest and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was
caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the students

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

breque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brask Tom's breath R manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her brusk

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

flattery

her friends cajoled her into drinking

too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her


mind

callous adjective

harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to chide

the woman chided the man for his vulgar

habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect
adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu

their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was innocent

I was coerced into giving my phone over


to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent in

elligible they failed to come up with a

coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the outbreak

she warned that there was no room for

complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may


be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president

not only are you my friend you are also

my closest

[Music]

Confidant

canive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using it

the cumulative effect of hours spent


learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

freedom

cry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be


deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

deir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a demure

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and deir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn J Jon's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teacher

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball


coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the desperate issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out out he had won

the lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate
moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speech in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled 10,000 ,000 in

company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's own

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity
noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to praise

rever Jenny extolled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]
character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the man

they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

feral

adjective Wild

[Music]

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact

the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective
astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

two flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fous

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

affertive

adjective
secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted

I'm tired of seeing gratuitous violence

in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films
hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real primadana and

very hoty at times but she was very much

loved the Divas dis distant and huy

behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

not

Jim's hypocrisy makes it very difficult

to trust him since he often says one

thing and does

[Music]

another J's boss was always late so when

he punished him for coming in late one

day JN thought it was total

hypocrisy

this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste
impertinent

adjective

rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude
insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive

adjective

clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

lazy

they were indolent and addicted to a

life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's


inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed

at how inept she was at her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's gone

December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the


patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tight knit closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular


views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the the

mountain without any safety gear and was

praised for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never change

I'm the first to admit that I'm an

inveterate Beer Drinker I drink almost

every

day she is an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her


hand

[Music]

all

[Music]

[Music]

for

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberation we considered our defeat to be

an aberration since we'd easily beaten

this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

Aquas

verb to agree without

[Music]

protesting two years later the president

acquiesced to a tax
increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guests to arrive

he set the table with aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her
parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand

the professor is an expert in Arcane

kashubian

[Music]

literature

aest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarest and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen


and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the students

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

breque

adjective

short

abrupt dismissive

his tone was

brasque Tom's brasque manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol verb

to urge

coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't


get her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so manip

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late

I can't believe he didn't even greet us

I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his


vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or threat

the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was


innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot

the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan IGN ignored the warning

signs and remained in a state of

complacency during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and


grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince Harry

she is an entrusted Confidant of the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

Confidant

canive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connive to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent


learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to children

War veterans decry neglect by the

government

differential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority


figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

deir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the

party was down dancing wildly she

remained

demure she gave a demure

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one minute then

bashful and deir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teacher's

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a


petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the desperate issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every test

the diligent researcher made sure to

always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland

she was elated at getting so many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate
moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill
will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

[Music]

violence aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic language

extol

verb to

praise

rever Jenny extolled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character

I got angry when my mother would extol

my brother's accomplishments and ignore


all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to deceive

the officers fabricated evidence in

order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

[Music]

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

itic cat that lives outdoors and avoids

human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded
astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

to flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

principles

[Music]

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo

The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive
Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

Criminal activ

it my parents eventually discovered that

I was lying and put an end to my furtive

Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hottie

adjective disdainfully
proud she could be a real primadana and

very hottie at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and huy

behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him hypocrisy

[Music]

noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective
rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an imp pertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife

the boy was implacable when his parents

left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent impertinent
Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

mother

incisive adjective

clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that


inept surgey operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed

the infamy of his crime will live on

long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of


bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

Success ins

satiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have of an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

thirst

[Music]

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views
my parents insular attitudes make them

very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

intrep person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every
day she is an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

for

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration

since we'd easily beaten this team last

season

abore

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice

because he always wound up losing he

began to abhor the

sport

acas

verb to agree without


[Music]

protesting 2 years later the president

acquiesced to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with

aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great aarcity

excited for his guest to arrive he set

the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to
cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

aest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is is plagued

by avarest and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold brash


clear and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the students

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work breque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was

Brusque Tom's Brusque manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her brusk

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into


making his favorite

meal

he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't get

her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun

honesty

[Music]

frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval

she chided him for taking the wrong

train and being


late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making

claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

CIA

[Music]

though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years
coers

[Music]

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household choice

ches

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of

the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun selfs satis

isfied ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the


[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with secrets

he was known as a close Confidant of

Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest

[Music]

Confidant

canive verb

to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative adjective
increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or steam of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about

him

the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers

violence on television is generally


decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

deferential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are def deferential

to their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform

deir

adjective quiet

modest

reserved

[Music]

though everyone else at the party was

dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a demure

smile he loved the way she could be

wanton and sensual one

minute then bashful and deir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason spoiled daughter thinks it


is okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teacher

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

DDE her whenever they had friends over

to

visit

desperate

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the desperate issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent

adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl

she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements

elated

adjective
Overjoyed

thrilled

I was elated when I found out we were

going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]

preacher

[Music]

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of embezzling

empathy
noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred hostility

there have been Decades of enmity

between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter historical enmities underly

the present

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated


at the top of her class

you can tell that he's aidite in the

subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

rever Jenny extoled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

feral
adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a human

a feral cat is an unowned domestic cat

that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted adjective

[Music]

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

two flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

called

[Music]

forsake

verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles
fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children

she had a fractious relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

gluttony

[Music]

gratuitous
adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

HTI

adjective disdainfully

proud

she could be a real Primadonna and very

hottie at times but she was very much

loved the Diva's distant and hoty

behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes him

[Music]

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another

John's boss was always late so when he


punished him for coming in late one day

John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective rude

insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to to

dignify them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my
sister

there was nothing Tony could do to

please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing do respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his mother

[Music]

incisive

adjective clear sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

[Music]

lazy they were indolent and addicted to


a life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the match

I would never want to have that inept

surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

noun

the state of being well known for some

bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in


[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhib inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

inate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

or

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending


[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded tighten it closed

off

since you have traveled the world you

shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

Canada

[Music]

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory

to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves


Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude in

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate Beer Drinker I drink

almost every

day she's an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

all

[Music]

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the

norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded so this Outburst is an

aberration they described the outbreak

of violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last


season

abhor

verb to

hate

detest I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior

as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

acas

verb to agree without

[Music]

protesting

2 years later the president acquiesced

to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity

noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with a

larity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

allcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity
amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken a

Pease

verb to calm

satisfy his mother always gives him

chocolate to appease him when he starts

to

cry

Amendments have been added to appease

the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

Arcane

objective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician

hid a loophole within the Arcane

language of the

[Music]

legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in


Arcane kashubian

[Music]

literature

avarest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarest and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold Brash clear

and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the student

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

breque

adjective

short

abrupt

dismissive his tone was


Brusque Tom's Brusque manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues

since she had burned so many bridges

with her brusk

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with

[Music]

flattery her friends cajoled her into

drinking too

much

he was able to cajo his wife into making

his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callous

adjective harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative

cander

noun
honesty

frankness

[Music]

I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive ch

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

parents

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making


claims

clandestine

adjective

Secret

she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine

rendevu their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many years

[Music]

coers

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to him

he coerced the children into doing all

of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically

consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of


the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazards that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the

president not only are you my friend you

are also my closest conf


[Music]

Confidant

canive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have connived at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

connect diving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of hours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

dease

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about


him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

Freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly

in her article she decries the pollution

of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the

government

deferential adjective

showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to the military veteran when he was in

uniform deir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the


party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a demure

smile he loved the way she could be wand

on and sensual one minute then bashful

and deure the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it

is okay to deride homeless

people

the native speaker often derided the

other teacher

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful full

basketball coach but many people

regarded him as a petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the desperate issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent
adjective showing care in doing one's

work

after diligent searching they found the

missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double check her

measurements elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said said to have been a

good talker and an eloquent

[Music]
preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$110,000 in company

funds he was caught in embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for

others enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she denied any personal enmity

towards

him bitter histor IAL enmities underly


the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite disc

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

rever Jenny extolled the virtues of a

veget iian diet to her meet loving

friends shallow people always extol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in

order to
deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the

man they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines

I overslept so I fabricated some excuse

about my car breaking down on the way to

[Music]

work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for

for 5 years the child had become feral

and no longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact the fal dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]

called

forsake
verb to give up

renounce she has forsaken her country

for an island in the South

Pacific

having a gluten allergy doesn't mean you

have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or irritable

they fight and squabble like fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent a furtive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity my parents eventually

discovered that I was lying and put an

end to my furtive endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or


drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity that book is a remarkable

illustration of a society's greed and

gluttony

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they treat Christmas as just another

excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted I'm tired of seeing

gratuitous violence in movies

profanity is usually gratuitous and

frequently just a sign of a laziness in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real Primadonna and

very hottie at times but she was very

much

loved the Diva's distant and hotty

Behavior made people forget just how

talented she was

because Chris is so hotty in vain nobody

likes

him
hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

[Music]

not Jim's hypocrisy makes it very

difficult to trust him since he often

says one thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he said

most of your comments are so


impertinent that I don't wish to digify

them with an

answer

implacable

adjective incapable of being appeased or

mitigated

she was an implacable enemy of my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter imp

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for

nothing the woman was beautiful but her

impudent ways made her

unlikable

his constant impudent Behavior was a

source of stress for his

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mother

incisive

adjective clear sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive humor
the teacher's incisive tone made it

clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

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lazy they were indolent and addicted to

a life of pleasure

my indolent daughter waited until the

last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable

unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live


on long after he's

gone December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit

you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn n

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets he has an innate drive for

success

insatiable
adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite her husband confronted her

about her insatiable spending

habits

[Music]

after being lost in the desert for days

the man thought no amount of water would

quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst

insular

adjective separated and

narrow-minded

tighten it closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attitudes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world

only a few people live in their insular

Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of

danger
Fearless

adventurous

our Intrepid reporter doesn't hesitate

to enter a dangerous territory to get

the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the man climbed the mountain

without any safety gear and was praised

for his intrepid attitude

[Music]

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never

[Music]

change I'm the first to admit that I'm

an inveterate being

Drinker I drink almost every

day she is an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

[Music]

[Music]

all

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

aberration

noun something that differs from the


norm she is normally calm and

levelheaded

so this Outburst is an

aberration they describe the outbreak of

violence in the area as an

aberration we considered our defeat to

be an aberration since we'd easily

beaten this team last

season

abhor

verb to

hate Det

test I abhor this type of insulting

Behavior as a judge I abhor

Injustice because he always wound up

losing he began to abhor the

sport

acas

verb to agree without protesting

[Music]

2 years later the president acquiesced

to a tax

increase though the man still had work

to do when his wife told him to come

home for dinner he acquiesced to her

demands

aarcity noun

eagerness

speed they accepted the offer with


aarcity the cat chased after the mouse

with great

aarcity excited for his guest to arrive

he set the table with

aarcity

amiable

adjective

friendly she had an amiable personality

always ready with a kind word and a

smile an amiable fellow he got along

with just about

everyone he is polite amiable and

softspoken

appease

verb to Cal satisfy

his mother always gives him chocolate to

appease him when he starts to

cry Amendments have been added to

appease the local

community she strived to get good grades

to appease her

parents

arcan

adjective

obscure

secret known only by a

few the corrupt politician hid a

loophole within the Arcane language of

the

[Music]
legislation for fun the friends invented

an Arcane language that only they could

understand the professor is an expert in

Arcane kashubian literature

[Music]

Avest

noun excessive

greed the corporate world is plagued by

avarest and thirst for

power the man's avarest led him to amass

an enormous

Fortune a person blinded by avarest is

unwilling to share

resources

Brazen

adjective excessively bold

Brash clear and

obvious at first the criminal was

careful however he soon grew too Brazen

and was

caught she knew it was a Brazen

lie the teacher condemned the students

Brazen attempt to plagiarize his

classmates's

[Music]

work

breque

adjective

short
abrupt

dismissive his tone was

brasque Tom's brusk manner sometimes

offends his

colleagues since she had burned so many

bridges with her Brusque

attitude no one wanted to work with

[Music]

her

Kajol

verb to urge

coax persuade with flattery

her friends cajoled her into drinking

too

[Music]

much he was able to cajo his wife into

making his favorite

meal he cajoled and pleaded but couldn't

get her to change her

mind

callous adjective

harsh cold

unfeeling he was nothing but a callous

thief the murderer's callous lack of

remorse shocked the

jury only a callous woman like her could

be so

manipulative can

cander

noun
honesty

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frankness I hope you will forgive my

cander but I don't see the point of this

meeting the politician's cander made him

the favorite candidate in the

election we were surprised by her cander

because she is usually rather

evasive

CH

verb to voice

[Music]

disapproval she chided him for taking

the wrong train and being

late I can't believe he didn't even

greet us I continued to

chide the woman chided the man for his

vulgar habits and sloppy

appearance

circumspect

adjective

cautious unwilling to take

risks the police were very circumspect

in their statements to the

public investors are very circumspect

when deciding where to put their money

these

days the scientists have been

circumspect about making


claims

clandestine

adjective

secret she undertook several clandestine

operations for the

[Music]

CIA though she said she was going to the

office she actually went to see Tom for

a clandestine rendevu

[Music]

their clandestine meetings went

undiscovered for many

[Music]

years

coer

verb to make somebody do something by

force or

threat the man was coerced into

confessing even though he was

innocent I was coerced into giving my

phone over to

him he coerced the children into doing

all of the household

chores

coherent

adjective logically consistent

intelligible they failed to come up with

a coherent

[Music]

strategy I like this novel because of


the fast pace and the coherent

plot the witness was too distraught to

deliver a coherent statement to the

police

complacency

noun self-satisfied

ignorance of

danger Japan ignored the warning signs

and remained in a state of complacency

during the

outbreak she warned that there was no

room for complacency on the

[Music]

matter one of the biggest problems faced

in the midst of completing day-to-day

tasks on the job is

complacency employees become accustomed

to doing things in a certain way and

grow oblivious to the hazard s that may

be ever present around

them

Confidant

noun a person entrusted with

Secrets he was known as a close

Confidant of Prince

Harry she is an entrusted Confidant of

the president

not only are you my friend you are also

my closest
[Music]

Confidant

canive

verb to plot scheme or secretly

allow they connived to take over the

business that politician is known to

have ConEd D at Shady business deals in

the

past the police are thought to be

conniving together to get a

conviction

cumulative

adjective

increasing building upon

itself my phone sends a weekly

notification of the cumulative hours

I've spent using using

[Music]

it the cumulative effect of ours spent

learning while sleeping is

astounding doctors are now looking at

the cumulative effect that stress has on

the

[Music]

body

debase

verb to lower the quality or esteem of

something the politician tried to debase

his rival's good reputation by spreading

false rumors about


him the holiday has been debased by

[Music]

commercialism politicians have debased

the meaning of the word

[Music]

freedom

decry

verb to criticize

openly in her article she decries the

pollution of the environment by

manufacturers violence on television is

generally decried as harmful to

Children War veterans decry neglect by

the government

deferential

adjective showing respect for another's

Authority the young are deferential to

their

Elders I was taught to always be

deferential to any kind of authority

figure people were always differential

to to the military veteran when he was

in

uniform

deir

adjective quiet

modest

[Music]

reserved though everyone else at the


party was dancing wildly she remained

demure she gave a Demir

smile he loved the way she could be want

on and sensual one minute then bashful

and deir the

next

deride

verb to laugh at

mockingly

scorn

Jason's spoiled daughter thinks it is

okay to deride homeless

people the native speaker often derided

the other teacher's

accent my sister's ex-husband liked to

deride her whenever they had friends

over to

visit

despit

noun one who has total power and rules

brutally he was a successful basketball

coach but many people regarded him as a

petty

desperate the company is run by a

benevolent

desperate the desperate issued a death

sentence for anyone who disobeyed his

[Music]

orders

diligent
adjective showing care in doing one's

work after diligent searching they found

the missing

girl she is a very diligent student who

always Aces every

test the diligent researcher made sure

to always double double check her

measurements

elated

adjective

Overjoyed

thrilled I was elated when I found out

we were going to

Disneyland she was elated at getting so

many job

offers when he found out he had won the

lottery the old man was

elated

eloquent

adjective

expressive

articulate

moving the best man gave such an

eloquent speech at the

wedding his speeches in the chamber were

always eloquent and

Powerful he is said to have been a good

talker and an eloquent

[Music]
preacher

embezzle

verb to steal money by falsifying

records he had embezzled

$10,000 in company

funds he was caught embezzling money

from his

clients she was convicted of

embezzling

empathy

noun sensitivity to another's feelings

as if they were one's

own the police officer showed empathy

for the victim's

family the story was so dull I had no

empathy for the

characters he has had a hard time

forming healthy

relationships because he lacks empathy

for others

enmity

noun ill

will

hatred

hostility there have been Decades of

enmity between the two

[Music]

countries she did denied any personal

enmity towards

him bitter historical enmities underly


the present

[Music]

violence

[Music]

aidite

adjective having or showing great

knowledge or

learning Kevin could turn any

conversation into an aidite

discussion the aidite student graduated

at the top of her

class you can tell that he's aidite in

the subject by his enthusiastic

language

extol

verb to

praise

Revere Jenny extolled the virtues of a

vegetarian diet to her meat loving

friends shallow people always exol

Beauty more than they do

[Music]

character I got angry when my mother

would extol my brother's accomplishments

and ignore all the good things I

[Music]

did

fabricate

verb to make up invent something in


order to

deceive the officers fabricated evidence

in order to arrest the man

they fabricated a story to sell more

magazines I overslept so I fabricated

some excuse about my car breaking down

on the way to

[Music]

work

feral

adjective

wild

Savage after living in the forest for 5

years the child had become feral and no

longer knew how to act like a

human a feral cat is an unowned domestic

cat that lives outdoors and avoids human

contact

the feral dog would not approach

humans

flabbergasted

adjective

astounded

astonished this news has left me totally

flabbergasted I was caught off guard and

too flabbergasted to say

anything because the actress was not

expecting to win an award she was

flabbergasted when her name was

[Music]
called

forsake

verb to give up

renounce

she has forsaken her country for an

island in the South

[Music]

Pacific having a gluten allergy doesn't

mean you have to forsake

cooking I won't forsake my vegetarian

[Music]

principles

fractious

adjective Troublesome or

irritable they fight and squabble like

fractious

children she had a fractious

relationship with

Pablo The Substitute Teacher found the

fractious students Hard to

Handle

furtive

adjective

secretive

Sly they spent affertive day

together the records showed furtive

criminal

activity

my parents eventually discovered that I


was lying and put an end to my furtive

Endeavors

online

gluttony

noun overindulgence in food or

drink gluttony is considered a sin in

Christianity

that book is a remarkable illustration

of a society's greed and

gluttony they treat Christmas as just

another excuse for

[Music]

gluttony

gratuitous

adjective uncalled for

unwarranted

I'm tired of seeing gratuitous violence

in

movies profanity is usually gratuitous

and frequently just a sign of a laziness

in

speech that director specializes in the

gratuitous exploitation of people's

worst nightmares in his horror

films

hottie

adjective disdainfully

proud she could be a real primadana and

very hoty at times but she was very much

loved the Diva's distant and huy


behavior made people forget just how

talented she

was because Chris is so hotty and vain

nobody likes

him

hypocrisy

noun pretending to believe what one does

not

[Music]

Jim's hypocrisy makes it very difficult

to trust him since he often says one

thing and does

[Music]

another John's boss was always late so

when he punished him for coming in late

one day John thought it was total

hypocrisy

this statement reeks of

hypocrisy

impeccable

adjective

exemplary

Flawless he had impeccable

manners she has impeccable

skin you have impeccable

taste

impertinent

adjective

rude
insolent

irrelevant I can't believe he asked such

an impertinent

question while he never intended his

remark to be

impertinent he found that a lot of

people had been offended by what he

[Music]

said most of your comments are so

impertinent that I don't wish to dignify

them with an

[Music]

answer

implacable

adjective

incapable of being appeased or

mitigated she was an implacable enemy of

my

sister there was nothing Tony could do

to please his implacable

ex-wife the boy was implacable when his

parents left him with the

babysitter

impudent

adjective not showing due respect for

another

person

rude

insolent

impertinent Andy is an impudent good for


nothing

the woman was beautiful but her impudent

ways made her

unlikable his constant impudent Behavior

was a source of stress for his

[Music]

mother

incisive

adjective clear

sharp

direct she was an incisive

critic his arguments were marked by

incisive

humor the teacher's incisive tone made

it clear that she was Fed

Up

indolent

adjective

lazy

they were indolent and addicted to a

life of

pleasure my indolent daughter waited

until the last moment to do her

homework Frank was an indolent boy who

never completed his

chores

inept

adjective not suitable or

capable
unqualified I didn't like the referee's

inept handling of the

match I would never want to have that

inept surgeon operate on

[Music]

me I was amazed at how inept she was at

her

job

infamy

[Music]

noun the state of being well known for

some bad quality or

deed the infamy of his crime will live

on long after he's gone

[Music]

December 7th

1941 is a day that will live in infamy

for the United

[Music]

States the man who kidnapped the

president's daughter will live in

[Music]

infamy

inhibit

verb to prevent

restrain

stop the cold weather inhibits the

growth of the

plants you shouldn't allow your fear of

failure to inhibit
you medication was prescribed to the

patient to inhibit the growth of

bacteria

innate

adjective

inborn

native

inherent she has an innate capacity for

organization while I'm naturally shy my

sister has the innate ability to make

friends with everyone she

meets

he has an innate drive for

Success

insatiable

adjective impossible to

satisfy he was always eating and seemed

to have an insatiable

[Music]

appetite

her husband confronted her about her

insatiable spending

[Music]

habits after being lost in the desert

for days the man thought no amount of

water would quench his insatiable

[Music]

thirst insular

adjective separated and


narrow-minded tighten it closed

off since you have traveled the world

you shouldn't have such insular

views my parents insular attit udes make

them very uninterested in the outside

world only a few people live in their

insular Village in the coldest part of

[Music]

Canada

Intrepid

adjective Brave in the face of d

danger

Fearless

[Music]

adventurous our Intrepid reporter

doesn't hesitate to enter a dangerous

territory to get the

story to be an astronaut you must be an

Intrepid person who loves

Adventure the the man climbed the

mountain without any safety gear and was

praised for his intrepid

[Music]

attitude

inveterate

adjective stubbornly established by

habit he's an inveterate Gambler and

will probably never change

I'm the first to admit that I'm an

inveterate Beer Drinker I drink almost


every

day she's an inveterate reader who

always has a book in her

hand

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