Red Horse Tutoring: Core Vocab

Stacey H.
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  1. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  2. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  3. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  4. alleviate
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  5. aloof
    distant, cold, or detached in manner
  6. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  7. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  8. amiable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  9. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  10. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  11. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  12. antipodal
    relating to or situated at opposite sides of the earth
  13. antithesis
    exact opposite
  14. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  15. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  16. atypical
    not representative of a group, class, or type
  17. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  18. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  19. autonomous
    existing as an independent entity
  20. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  21. bane
    something causing misery or death
  22. belie
    be in contradiction with
  23. boon
    something that is desirable, favorable, or beneficial
  24. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  25. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  26. confounded
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  27. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  28. covet
    wish, long, or crave for
  29. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  30. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  31. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  32. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  33. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  34. enigmatic
    not clear to the understanding
  35. evocation
    stimulation that calls up a particular class of behaviors
  36. exacting
    severe and unremitting in making demands
  37. forerunner
    something that precedes something or someone
  38. fortitude
    strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
  39. futile
    producing no result or effect
  40. genial
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  41. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  42. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  43. impasse
    a situation in which no progress can be made
  44. implausible
    highly imaginative but unlikely
  45. indifferent
    marked by a lack of interest
  46. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  47. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  48. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  49. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  50. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  51. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  52. mystified
    totally perplexed and mixed up
  53. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  54. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  55. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  56. obsolete
    no longer in use
  57. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  58. pandemic
    existing everywhere
  59. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  60. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  61. pedestrian
    a person who travels by foot
  62. perplexed
    full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
  63. platitudinous
    dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
  64. plausible
    apparently reasonable, valid, or truthful
  65. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  66. prattle
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  67. presumptuous
    going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous
  68. prevalent
    most frequent or common
  69. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  70. prototype
    a standard or typical example
  71. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  72. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  73. reproach
    express criticism towards
  74. sarcastic
    expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
  75. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  76. supposition
    the cognitive process of conjecturing
  77. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  78. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  79. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  80. unconventional
    not conforming to standards
  81. unorthodox
    breaking with tradition or typical norms
  82. wry
    humorously sarcastic or mocking
Created on Mon Feb 06 22:27:55 EST 2012 (updated Mon Feb 06 22:44:12 EST 2012)

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