English Vocab

• great attention to detail; very careful and precise
• he had always been so meticulous about his appearance.

• soft and slushy mud or dirt.
• figurative a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself

• many and of various types
• multifarious activities.

lacking interest or excitement; dull

• (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal
• the nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates.

• obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
• they were served by obsequious waiters.

extremely unpleasant; repulsive

• not able to be seen through; not transparent
• hard or impossible to understand;

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress orattract notice

able to be touched or felt

• a person or thing viewed as a model of excellence
• your cook is a paragon.

an outcast

relating to a church parish

• the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities; scarcity
• a paucity of information.

overly concerned with minute details or formalisms,

• expressing contempt or disapproval
• permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term.

a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them

a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight to one's pride

concise and forcefully

evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

a strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech

• an indicative of development
• a precocious talent for computing.

• a tendency to choose or do something
• a proclivity for hard work.

a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring

• producing many offspring, or works
• he was a prolific composer of operas.

• having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty
• prosaic language can't convey the experience.

• tending or able to change frequently or easily
• able to do many different things;

prolong, extend

eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

physical beauty