Vocabulary Unit 6

1. Vocabulary Unit 6 Level H

2. abortive adjective: failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed

3. bruit Verb: to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors

4. contumelious Adjective:insolent or rude in speech or behavior; Insultingly abusive; humiliating

5. dictum Noun: a short saying; An authoritative statement

6. ensconce Verb: to settle comfortably and firmly in position; To put or hide in a safe place

7. iconoclastic Adjective: attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions

8. in medias res Adverb: in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things

9. internecine Adjective: mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed

10. maladroit Adjective: lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, Perception, or judgment

11. maudlin Adjective: excessively or effusively sentimental

12. modulate Verb: to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust

13. portentous Adjective: foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous

14. prescience Noun: knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight

15. quid pro quo Noun: something given in exchange or return for something else

16. salubrious Adjective: conducive to health or well-being; wholesome

17. saturnalian Adjective: characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness

18. touchstone Noun: a means of testing worth or genuineness

19. traumatic Adjective: to shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage

20. vitiate Verb: to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of

21. waggish Adjective: fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll