Vocabulary Final

• n. Constant and earnest effort to accomplish a task; careful attention
• adj. dilligent
• adv. diligently

• n. The ability to see what is likely to happen and to prepare for it accordingly; careful thought or concern for the future
• verb. foresee

• adj. extremely careful and precise
• excessively concerned with details
• adv. meticulously
• noun. meticulousness

• adj. excercising caution, good judgement, or common sense in handling practical matters; giving thought to one's actions and their consequences.
• n. prudence
• adv. prudently

• transverb. to decieve;trick
• to amuse; delight
• to pass time pleasantly

• n. appropriatness of behavior or conduct; propriety
• adj. decorous

n. the way in which one behaves or conducts oneself

• adj. not having a noble character or purpose; dishonorable
• not of the nobility; common
• adv. ignobly

• adj. not in good taste; improper; unbecoming
• adv. in an unseemly manner
• n. unseemliness

• n. the act of forming an opinion from incomplete evidence; guesswork
• a statement or opinion based on guesswork
• trans verb. to guess
• intrans. to make a conjecture
• adj. conjectural

• adj. taking place within an individuals mind rather than the external environment; personal
• adv. subjectively
• n. subjectivity

• adj. anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
• adv. apprehensively
• n. apprehensiveness

• adj. dangerously lacking in security or stability; ussafe; risky
• adv. precariously
• n. precariousness

• adj. leaving no doubt or misunderstanding; perfectly clear
• adv. unequivocally

• trans verb. to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; hesitate
• n. vacillation

n. strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or trouble with courage.

• adj. physically strong; sturdy; robust
• resolute; firm
• n. a sturdy strong willed person
• a loyal supporter
• adv. stalwartly
• n. stalwartness

n. endurance; resistance to fatigue, illness, or hardship

• n. acceptance as true or vaild; belief
• claim ot acceptance; trustworthiness

• adj. tending to believe too readily; easily decieved; gullible
• n. credulity
• adv. credulously

• n. control over one's emotions; steadiness of manner; tranquility
• v. compose
• adj. composed

• adj. not easily disturbed or excited; unshakably calm and collected
• n. imperturbability
• adv. impertutbably

• adj. tending toward suddenness and boldness
• of action; impulsive; hasty
• adv. impetuously
• n. impetuousness

• adj. reluctant to exert oneself; habitually lazy
• suggesting a calm idleness and ease
• n. indolence
• adv. indolently

• adj. rudely bold; insolent
• trans verb. to face or undergo with bold or brash self assurance
• adv. brazenly
• n. brazenness

• adj. showing a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging; amiable
• n. complaisance
• adv. complaisantly

• adj. easy to notice; obvious
• attracting attention by being unusual or remarkable
• adv. conspicuously
• n. conspicuousness

• adj. not embarrased or ashamed
• adv. unabashedly

• trans verb. to turn away or aside
• to prevent from happening; avert disaster

• n. something that relaxes or entertains; recreation
• the act of turning aside from a course or direction
• the act of drawing attention from one thing to another
• v. divert

• adj. accidental; unintentional
• not duly attentive
• adv. inadvertently

• adj. indisputable; unquestionable
• adv. incontrovertibly

• intrans verb. to return to a former condition, practice or belief.
• n. reversion

• adj. capable of doing many things competently
• having varied uses or functions
• n. versatility

• adj. extremely or deliberatly noticeable; glaring
• n. flagrancy
• adv. flagrantly

• adj. done quickly and with stealth; sly
• adv. furtively
• n. furtiveness

• adj. present or capable of coming into existence but not evident, active, or visible
• n. latency
• adv. latently

• adj. done or acting in secret; sneaky
• adv. add -ly
• n.-ness

• adj. not readily noticeable; inconspicuous
• not aggressive; discreet
• adv.-ly
• n.-ness

• trans verb. to make clear or plain
• intrans. to give an explanation that make something clear
• n. elucidation

• adj. expressed clearly and precisely, without any possibility of misunderstanding
• forthright and unambiguous in expression
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

adj. hasty; not thorough

trans verb. to bring something upon oneself; become subject to

n. someone or something that precedes something else; a forerunner

• n. a turning to someone or something for aid or support
• a source of help or strength

• adj. bitter and ill natured in language or tone
• adv. -ly
• n. acrimony

• trans verb. to punish for misbehaving or wrong doing
• to criticise severly
• n.-ment

adj. detracting from the character or standing of someone or something; expressive of a low opinion; disdainful

• trans verb. to speak of as unimportant or inferior; belittle
• to lower in rank or reputation
• n. -ment
• adv. disparagingly

• trans verb. to critisize or refute by argumentation
• to oppose as false or worthless; cast doubt on

• adj. tending to cause, promote or help bring about
• helpful; favorable
• n. -ness

• trans verb. to free or release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage
• n. -tion

• trans verb. to press with repeated and insistent requests; beg urgently
• adj. importunate

• trans verb. to acknowledge as true or real, often unwillingly
• to give, yield, grant
• intrans. to make a concession; yield
• n. concession

• trans verb. to go beyond or over (a limit or boundary)
• to act in violation of, as a law
• n.-ion
• n. trangressor

• adj. similar in certain qualities, circumstances, or uses
• in biology, similar in funtion but not in origin or structure
• n. analogy

• n. direct contrast; opposition
• in speech and writing, the placement of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or grammatical structures
• adj. antithetical

• intrans verb. to differ or move away from a specified course or prescribed mode of behavior; diverge
• n. -ion

• n. lack of feeling or emotion; impassiveness
• lack of interest in things generally found exciting, interesting or moving; indifference
• adj. apathetic

• n. understanding, concerned identification with another's situation or feelings
• the attribution of one's own feelings to an object
• adj. empathetic
• v. emphasize

• adj. responsible for wrong or error; blameworthy; deserving censure
• n. culpability

• trans verb. to free from a charge; declare blameless
• n. -ion

• adj. not permitted by custom or law; illegal
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• adj. without scruples or principles; not honorable
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• n. good humored, playful conversation
• intrans verb. to converse in a teasing or playful manner

• adj. playfully humorous
• jesting, often in an inappropriate or offensive way
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• adj. laughable because of an obvious absurdity or ridiculousness
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• n. a witty or clever remark or saying
• adj. witty

• adj. unfavorable to one's interest or welfare: adverse circumstances
• contrary or opposing in intention or effectr; hostile: adverse criticism
• adv. -ly
• n. adversity

• adj. having a strong feeling of dislike or reluctance
• adv. -lu
• n. -ion

• adj. having or showing creative or inventive skill
• original or imaginative in design or execution
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• adj. showing or having simplicity, openness and honesty, in a child-like way
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• adj. lacking money or resources to provide adequately the necessitiess of life; needy; impoverished
• n. indigence
• adv. -ly

• adj. very generous in giving
• marked by or showing great generosity
• n. munificence
• adv. -ly

adj. consisting of or having to do with money: pecuniary motives

• trans verb. to pay compensation for goods, services, or losses (efforts or their time)
• n. -ion
• adj. remunerative

• n. a trite or overused expression or idea
• something overly familiar and commonplace
• adj. cliched

• adj. cool, carefree, and casually unconcerned, or seeming so
• without enthusiasm; indifferent
• n. nonchalance
• adv. -ly

n. something in which a person excels, a stong point

• adj. marked by unaffected simplicity; unsophisticated; artless
• showing a lack of experience or judgement
• adv. -ly
• n. naivete

• adj. lazily slow or relaxed
• lacking spirit
• or energy; weak
• causing a feeling of laziness
• adv. -ly
• v. languish
• n. languor

• n. drowsy or sluggish indifference, apathy
• an unconsious state resembling deep sleep
• adj. -ic
• adv. -ically

• n. the condition of exceeding reasonable or proper limits; excessiveness; extravagance
• adj. exorbitant
• adv. -ly

• adj. not temperate or moderate
• n.-ance
• adv.-ly

• adj. recklessly wasteful or extravagant
• completely given over to self- indulgence

• adj. beyond what is required or sufficient; extra
• adv. -ly
• n. -ness

• adj. marked by or showing warmth of emotion or desire; passionate
• marked by enthusiasm or eagerness
• adv. -ly
• n. ardor

adj. inspired with love; charmed; captivated

n. a definite and habitual liking; inclination

• n. a feeling of strong dislike or distaste
• adj. repugnant
• adv. -ly

• adj. lasting for a very brief time; fleeting; transitory
• lasting for only one day
• adv. -ly

• adj. lasting or seeming to last forever; tiresomely drawn out
• adv. -ly

• adj. provided for the time being; temporary
• n. provision
• adv. -ly

• n. someone or something that precedes or goes before
• ancestors; forebears
• an event that occurs before another, especially one that influences or causes another
• the word, phrase or clause to which the pronoun refers to
• adj, coming or being before in time, place or order; preceeding

• adj. about to occur; immediate
• n.-nence
• adv.-ly

• intrans verb. to surrender under specific conditions; give up all resistance
• n. capitulation

• adj. proudly scornful; disdainful; contemptuous
• adv, -ly
• n. -ness

• intrans verb. to behave in a demeaning or self-abasing manner; kowtow; truckle
• to lie or crawl on the ground face down as a gesture of submissiveness or abasement
• n. groveler

• adj. so fine or thin in texture as to be transparent or nearly transparent
• having great fineness and delicacy of form
• vague or insubstantial

• adj. capable of being felt or touched
• easily percieved by any of the senses or by the mind; obvious; noticeable
• n. -ity
• adj.-ly

• trans verb. to spread or flow throughout; pervade
• to pass through the openings or spaces in: a liquid
• n.-lity
• adv. - able

• adj. resembling glue in consistency and stickyness
• having a relatively high resistance to flow
• n. -ity