vocabulary week 6

NO	WORD	TYPES OF WORD	MEANING	SAMPLE SENTENCE
1	Stupendous	adjective	So large or great that it amazes you	The stupendous engineering feats achieved by the ancient Romans.
2	consummate	adjective	Very good or skillful, very bad	The consummate artist managed to produce a very stupendous portrait.
3	peerless	adjective	Having no equal , better than all others	The show’s enduring success was a testimony to the peerless talents of its ensemble cast.
4	wane	verb	To become smaller or less	The scandal caused her popularity to wane.
5	stellar	adjective	Very good, outstanding	The miniature palm tree is a stellar example of the art of bonsai.
6	pertinent	adjective	Relating to the thing that is being thought about or discussed	He impressed the jury with his concise , pertinent answers to the attorney’s questions.
7	innocuous	Adjective	Not likely to bother or offend anyone, causing no injury, harmless	Those innocuous lies we must tell every day if society is the remain civil.
8	forcible	Adjective	Made or done by physical force or violence	The boy has a forcible mother as he is very lazy.
9	indelible	adjective	Impossible to remove or forget , producing marks that cannot be erased	Winning the state basketball championship was our team’s most indeliable experience.
10	voracious	adjective	Having or showing a tendency to eat very large amounts of food	My varacious hamster eats a lot of sunflower seeds.
11	reprimand	verb	To speak in angry and critical way to (someone who has done something wrong, disobeyed an order)	Aina reprimanded Farah as Farah  broke her favourite vase.
12	disbar	verb	To take away the right of a lawyer to work in the legal profession.	The lawyer had been disbarred as he is guilty in a fraud.
13	suborn	verb	To persuade someone to do something illegal (such as to lie in a court of law)	The lawyer is suborned by the wealthy family to prove that the defendant is not guilty although he is the real murderer.
14	clandestine	adjective	Done in a private place or way, done secretly	I took a clandestine peek at the price tag on the diamond necklace.
15	egregious	adjective	Very bad and easily noticed	The student’s theme was marred by a number of egrecious errors in spelling.
16	avert	verb	To turn your eyes,gaze etc away or aside / to prevent something bad from happening	He sped up and averted an accident.
17	Mollify	verb	To make someone less angry , to calm  someone down	An apology would probably mollify your friend.
18	instigate	verb	To cause something to happen or begin	The charge that the scene in the movie had instigated teenagers to commit similar acts of vandalism.
19	foment	verb	To cause or try to cause the growth or development of something bad or harmful	The act of the students had foment  fight at the school.
20	devolve	verb	Pass on or delegate to another	The company was full of managers known for devolving tasks to lower management , but never doing much work themselves.
21	archaic	adjective	So old as to appear to belong to a different period	Wants to look intelligent, Mary used archaic English when talking to her friends.
22	tawdry	adjective	Tastelessly showy,cheap and shoddy	Carol expected to see a modern house but she was surprised to see a tawdry.
23	elusive	adjective	Difficult to capture or difficult to remember	Many first time skydivers say that describing the act of falling from the sky is elusive.
24	fawn	verb	Try to gain favor by extreme flattery	The media fawned over the handsome new CEO ,praising his impeccable sense of style instead of asking more pointed questions.
25	convivial	adjective	Describing a lively atmosphere	The wedding reception was convivial , as many people came to the weeding.