Monster Vocab Test!

aplomb

poise, assurance

callow

w/o experience

surmise

to think or believe w.o supporting evidence

adventitious

incidental; accidental

acculturation

adaptation

expediate

redeem

seditious

resistant to authority; rebellious

tenuous

vague; hazy

assuage

to make easier or milder

inscrutable

incapable of being understood

insular

narrow outlook or experience

querulous

peevish; complaining

sedulous

persistant

scurrilious

vulgar

axiomatic

self-evident

blazon

embellishment

caveat

warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding

fractious

tending to be troublesome

soporific

causing sleep

sepulchral

funereal

aspersion

derogatory statement; defaming

aspersion

derogatory statement; defaming

ennui

boredom; listlessness

sinecure

job that is easy

surreptitious

stealthily

debase

lower in character

grandiose

grand

mitigate

make milder or softer

prate

blabber; talk a great deal in a foolish way

acrimonious

stinging, bitter in temper or tone

expurgate

purify

impugn

to call into question or accuse

odium

hatred

relegate

relocate

anathema

object of intense dislike

avarice

greedy desire

egregious

standing out

penury

extreme poverty

slovenly

untidy, dirty, careless

torpid

inactive, sluggish

accrue

grow or accumulate over time

dun

demand insistently

invective

condemnation; abusive

munificent

extremely generous

reprobate

a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person

abstemious

moderate

denizen

an inhabitant

heresy

opinion different that of accepted belief

inculcate

to impress on the mind with repitition

pernicious

extremely harmful

salient

leaping, jumping, springing forth

specious

deceptive; lacking real merit

extenuate

to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense

implicit

implied or understood though unexpressed

ostentatious

overdone

prosaic

dull

redundant

excess or extra

sanctimonious

self-righteous

scintillating

sparkling, twinkling

aver

to affirm

collate

compare critically

encumber

weigh down