Vocabulary Mastery: Definitions for Enhanced Understanding
Vocabulary Definitions
Sublime – Such excellence or beauty as to inspire great admiration.
Potentate – A person who possesses great power as a ruler.
Requisition – An authoritative or formal demand.
Adjuration – An earnest request; an oath or promise.
Cessation – A temporary or complete stopping.
Supplicatory – Asking humbly and earnestly.
Implacable – Relentless; unstoppable.
Admonitory – Cautioning of something; warning.
Obstinacy – Stubbornness.
Aphorism – A pithy observation that contains a general truth.
Cadence – A modulation or inflection in voice.
Compunction – A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad.
Abject – Extremely bad, unpleasant, or degrading.
Dejected – To make sad or dispirited.
Propitiate – To win or regain the favor of a god or person by doing something that pleases them.
Felicitous – Well-chosen or suited to circumstances.
Importunity – Making repeated or annoying requests.
Trenchant – Very strong, clear, and effective.
Rejoinder – A reply, especially a sharp or witty one.
Ostentatious – A vulgar or pretentious display designed to impress or attract attention.
Mercenary – A person concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.
Blight – An infection; to infect.
Deride – To ridicule.
Qualms – An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear.
Recompense – To make amends for loss or harm suffered; compensate.
Assiduous(ly) – Diligently at task; industrious.
Practicable – Able to be done successfully.
Demonstrative – Tending to show feelings, especially of affection, openly.
Predominate – To have or exert control or power; central.
Turbid – Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.
Execrations – The act of cursing or denouncing.
Inundation – An overwhelming abundance of things.
Contention – Heated disagreement.
Portentous – Ominous.
Edify – To instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually.
Beatify – To entitle to specific religious honor; to consecrate.
Peremptory – Insisting on immediate attention or obedience in an imperious way.
Conflagration – An extensive fire that destroys a great deal.
Munificent – A sum of money larger or more generous than necessary.
Orthodox – Beliefs that are traditionally or generally accepted.
Latent – Existing but not yet developed; hidden.
Interpose – To place or insert between two things.
Inviolate – Free or safe from injury or violation.
Approbation – Approval or praise.
Sanguine – Optimistic or positive, especially in a bad situation.
Sequester – To isolate or hide away.
Demur – To raise doubts or objections or show reluctance.
Repudiate – To refuse to accept or be associated with.
Requisite – Made necessary by particular circumstances; a thing that is necessary for achievement.
Voluble – Speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently.
Discreditable – Tending to bring harm to a reputation.
Infirmity – Physical or mental weakness.
Presentiment – An intuitive feeling about the future.
Supposition – An uncertain belief.
Imbue(d) – To inspire or permeate with a feeling.
Inveterate – Unlikely to change.
Expiation – Making amends for guilt or wrongdoing.