Vocab Unit IV

Affable

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

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

Aggrandize = increase Grand in size

Like a Grande Meal

Amorphous

• (adj.) shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character

• SYN: formless, unstructured

Amorphous = shapeless, without definite formMighty Morphin Power Rangers were able to

morph into Megazord

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

ARCHETYPE

Noah’s ark is the archetype for Flood stories OR IS IT???

Aura

• (n.) that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality

• SYN: ambience, atmosphere

AURA THAT WHICH SURROUNDS

Like Atmosphere

Contraband

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

CONTRABAND

CONTRA FIGHTERS HAD CONTRABAND WEAPONS

Erudite

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

ERUDITESome SMART people can seem RUDE

Gossamer

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

Is Ryan Gosling LIGHT on his feet when dancing?

GOSSAMER = THIN, LIGHT, AIRY

Gossamer

• Go summer! We wear thin, light and delicate clothes in the summer heat.

Inscrutable

• (adj.) incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically

• SYN: impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic

INSCRUTABLEUnABLE to be SCRUTINIZED

Insular

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

INSULARIsolated, narrow in outlook

Irrevocable

• (adj.) incapable of being changed or called back

• SYN: unrecallable, unalterable

Irrevocable

• The cable doesn’t work and I can’t do anything about it!

Propensity

• (n.) a natural inclination or predilection toward

• SYN: natural bent, proclivity, penchant

Propensity= Pro Pens City (Pittsburgh)

Querulous

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

Querulous---Quirrell

Complaining

Remonstrate

• (v.) to argue with someone against something, protest against

• SYN: reason against, expostulate

Remonstrate sounds like demonstrate. A demonstration is a protest!

Repudiate

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

Resilient

• (adj.) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly

• SYN: springy, elastic

Resilient sounds like “Brazilian”,

and it takes flexibility to dance at

Carnival.

Reverberate

• (v.) to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly

• SYN: rumble, thunder, boom, echo

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

Scurrilous

• (adj.) coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed

• SYN: obscene, filthy, abusive

Sedulous

• (adj.) persistent, showing industry and determination

• SYN: assiduous, indefatigable,

Sedulous-Seduce

• To seduce a love interest, one must be sedulous, or persistent

Sleazy

• (adj.) thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality or character

• SYN: inferior, cheesy

Take it sleazy!