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Vocab Unit IV

Vocab Unit IV. Affable. (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable SYN: genial, amicable, cordia l. Affable Archie the Anglo-Saxon, an amicable angel. Aggrandize . (v.) to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater SYN: augment, amplify, enhance.

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Vocab Unit IV

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  1. Vocab Unit IV

  2. Affable • (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable • SYN: genial, amicable, cordial

  3. Affable Archie the Anglo-Saxon, an amicable angel.

  4. Aggrandize • (v.) to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater • SYN: augment, amplify, enhance

  5. Aggrandize = increase Grand in sizeLike a Grande Meal

  6. Amorphous • (adj.) shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character • SYN: formless, unstructured

  7. Amorphous = shapeless, without definite formMighty Morphin Power Rangers were able to morph into Megazord

  8. Archetype • (n.) an original model on which something was patterned or replicated; the ideal example of a particular type of person • SYN: model, prototype, epitome

  9. ARCHETYPENoah’s ark is the archetype for Flood stories OR IS IT???

  10. Aura • (n.) that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality • SYN: ambience, atmosphere

  11. AURA THAT WHICH SURROUNDS Like Atmosphere

  12. Contraband • (n.) illegal traffic, smuggled goods • (adj.) illegal, prohibited • SYN: (adj.) bootleg, unlawful

  13. CONTRABANDCONTRA FIGHTERS HAD CONTRABAND WEAPONS

  14. Erudite • (adj.) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic • SYN: profoundly educated, well-read

  15. ERUDITESome SMART people can seem RUDE

  16. Gossamer • (adj.) thin, light, delicate • (n.) a very thin, light cloth • SYN: (adj.) filmy, diaphanous, sheer, airy

  17. Is Ryan Gosling LIGHT on his feet when dancing? GOSSAMER = THIN, LIGHT, AIRY

  18. Gossamer • Gosummer! We wear thin, light and delicate clothes in the summer heat.

  19. Inscrutable • (adj.) incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically • SYN: impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic

  20. INSCRUTABLEUnABLE to be SCRUTINIZED

  21. Insular • (adj.) relating to, characteristic of • SYN: narrow-minded, parochial, provincial

  22. INSULARIsolated, narrow in outlook

  23. Irrevocable • (adj.) incapable of being changed or called back • SYN: unrecallable, unalterable

  24. Irrevocable • The cable doesn’t workand I can’t do anything about it!

  25. Propensity • (n.) a natural inclination or predilection toward • SYN: natural bent, proclivity, penchant

  26. Propensity= Pro Pens City (Pittsburgh)

  27. Querulous • (adj.) peevish, complaining • SYN: petulant, irritable

  28. Querulous---Quirrell Complaining

  29. Remonstrate • (v.) to argue with someone against something, protest against • SYN: reason against, expostulate

  30. Remonstrate sounds like demonstrate. A demonstration is a protest!

  31. Repudiate • (v.) to disown, reject, or deny the validity of • SYN: disavow, renounce

  32. Resilient • (adj.) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly • SYN: springy, elastic

  33. Resilient sounds like “Brazilian”, and it takes flexibility to dance at Carnival.

  34. Reverberate • (v.) to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly • SYN: rumble, thunder, boom, echo

  35. Reverberate=Re-vibrateto re-echo, again and again

  36. Scurrilous • (adj.) coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed • SYN: obscene, filthy, abusive

  37. Sedulous • (adj.) persistent, showing industry and determination • SYN: assiduous, indefatigable,

  38. Sedulous-Seduce • To seduce a love interest, one must be sedulous, or persistent

  39. Sleazy • (adj.) thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality or character • SYN: inferior, cheesy

  40. Take it sleazy!

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