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Voocabulary List 28 words

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  1. acquiesce
    to agree or express agreement
  2. adjective
    the word class that qualifies nouns
  3. adverb
    a word that modifies something other than a noun
  4. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
  5. belie
    be in contradiction with
  6. clause
    a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
  7. contain
    contain or hold; have within
  8. curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns)
  9. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  10. despot
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  11. divine
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  12. egotist
    a conceited and self-centered person
  13. fidelity
    the quality of being faithful
  14. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  15. impunity
    exemption from punishment or loss
  16. inalienable
    incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
  17. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
  18. metamorphosis
    a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
  19. peculiar
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  20. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  21. predicate
    involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
  22. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
  23. professorial
    relating to or characteristic of professors
  24. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  25. recondite
    difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
  26. snoop
    watch, observe, or inquire secretly
  27. synonym
    two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
  28. sneaky
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed