Vocabulary Words

cold and steady in mood, gloomy or surly in disposition, having a sardonic aspect

• very sacred or holy, inviolable, treated as if it were prone to criticism or violation
• (sacrosanctity=noun)

• a superior influence or authority over others, the social/cultural/idealogical/economic influence exerted by a certain group
• (hegemonic=adj.)

• something sharp and caustic that resembles a vitriol (a metal)
• (vitriolic=adj)

• of or relating to bile, sickeningly unpleasant, having a peevish, ill-natured disposition
• (biliously=adv,
• biliousness=noun)

a superficial covering/exterior, the surface of something that has grown beautiful with age, an appearance derived from association, habit or established character

• a model of excellence or perfection
• (verb-to be in rivalry with)

• a harsh, insistent sound, something that commands attention by a loud, obtrusive quality
• (stridently=adv)

• tending to cause delay, characterized by procrastination
• (dilatorily=adv.,
• dilatoriness=noun)

• having keen mental perception, perceptive, acute, sharp (perspicacity
• & perspicaciousness=noun, perspicasiously=adv.)

extremely primitive, made or developed a long time ago, referring to the time before the flood of the Bible (also a noun)

• lacking originality and freshness; trite
• (banalize=verb,
• banally=adv.)

a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction; boredom

• sluggish, drooping as if from exhaustion, lacking quickness of movement
• (languidly=adv.,
• languidness=noun)

• of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
• (sartorially=adv.)

• to make ineffective, faulty, or defective, to lower in moral or aesthetic status
• (vitiation
• & vitiator=noun)

a slight offense

• of mariageable condition or age, sexually attractive in a young female
• (nubility=noun)

• having negative connotations, tending to belittle
• (also
• a noun, pejoratively=adv.)

the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops; environment