vocabulary week 5

No.	word	Type of word	meaning	Sample sentence
1	irascible	adjective	Becoming angry easily ,having bad temper	The professor becoming increasingly irascible in laters year whenever he was opposed.
2	taciturn	adjective	Tending to be quiet ,not speaking frequently	A taciturn man, he almost never initiaes a  conversation .
3	voluble	adjective	Talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way	She is a voluble girl as she really likes to greet people.
4	contrite	adjective	Feeling or showing regret for bad behavior	Being contrite is not enough to spare you an arrest if you are caught shoplifting.
5	verdant	adjective	Green with growing plants	A beautiful , verdant field behind my house.
6	sparse	adjective	Present only in a small amount ,thinly covering an area	The area has a sparse vegetation.
7	jovial	adjective	Full og happiness and joy	The trip to the amusement park but everyone in a jovial mood.
8	amicable	adjective	Showing a polite and friendly desire to avoid disagreement and argument	The contract negotiations between the hotel workers and management were reasonably amicable.
9	hostile	adjective	Relating to an enemy ,not friendly , unpleasant or harsh	Our landlord has a hostile attitude toward foreigners and refuses to rent to them.
10	antipathy	noun	A strong feeling of dislike	I feel no antipathy towards any of my opponents.
11	nomenclature	Noun	A system of names for things especially in science	The nomenclature , “tuxedo “  derives from the fact that the jacket first became popular in the resort area of Tuxedo Park ,New York.
12	cumbersome	Adjective	Hard to handle or to manage because of size or weight	A long-handled wrench that is too cumbersome for tight spots , such as under the sink.
13	facile	adjective	Too simple, not showing enough thought or effort, done or achieved in a way that is too easy.	A few early facile victories misled the country into thinking  that the war would be  short and relatively painless.
14	mislead	verd	To cause someone to believe something that is not true	The coral snake’s attractive colours can mislead you into thinking that it is harmless.
15	allegation	noun	A statement saying that someone has done something wrong or illegal	His reputation become bad by the allegations of fraud.
16	fraud	noun	The crime of using dishonest methods to take something valuable from another person, deceit, trickery	He was found guilty of bank fraud.
17	vindicate	verb	To show that someone is not guilty.	Recent discoveries have generally vindicated the physicist’s theories.
18	Indict	verb	To charge with fault or offense	The grand jury could indict the mayor for fraud.
19	blemish	verb	To make something imperfect or less beautiful	His face is blemished when he get the scar.
20	exonerate	verb	To prove that someone is not guilty of a crime	The results of the DNA fingerprinting finally exonarated the man , but only after he had wasted 10 years of his life in prison.
21	tarnish	verb	To damage or ruin the good quality of something	The news statement  about the man tarnished his reputation.
22	condone	verb	To forgive or approve something wrong	He is too quick to condone his friend’s faults.
23	meager	adjective	Very small in amount	Ever since he started the diet,his dinners have been more meager than he would like.
24	evanescent	adjective	Lasting a very short time	Beauty that is as evanescent as a rainbow.
25	stupendous	adjective	awesome	Atiqah is stupendous  athlete as she can run very fast.