vocabulary week 7

NO	WORD	TYPES OF WORD	MEANING	SAMPLE  SENTENCE
1	obstinate	adjective	Resistant to guidance or discipline, stubbornly persistent	The boys remained obstinate even after he was called by the headmaster.
2	spendthrift	noun	One who spends money extravangantly	Farah is known as a spendthrift as she loves shopping very much.
3	sanguine	adjective	Cheerful , optimistic	Aina always sanguine although she has to pass TOEFL and SAT.
4	elusive	adjective	Difficult to capture or difficult to remember	He said that remembering back how he fell was very elusive.
5	vindictive	adjective	To have a very strong desire for revenge	Aiman  become  a very vindictive person after he lost his parents.
6	erratic	adjective	Unpredictable , strange and unconventional	The school ‘s rules are erratic as they treats students as prisoners.
7	lethargic	adjective	Lacking energy	Madam Zu will start doing funny things when she sees her students lethargic.
8	placid	adjective	Not easily irritated	Everyone was shocked when they saw Adi became angry as he is known as placid man.
9	ingenuity	noun	The power of creative imagination	Shasha become a very successful artist as she has a great ingenuity.
10	respite	noun	A pause from doing something (as work)	Every workers has respite at lunch.
11	enumerate	verb	Determine the number or amount of	Faridah enumerate the tudung that her company manage to sell in three months.
12	perturb	verb	Disturb in mind or cause to be worried or alarmed	We try to avoid our father from being perturb as he has heart disease.
13	besiege	verb	Harass, as with questions or requestd, cause to feel distressed or worried	After she got a lot of money, she was besieged by threats from dangerous criminals.
14	tirade	noun	An angry speech	She gave a tirade that made our teacher offended .
15	spurn	verb	Reject with contempt	She spurned all his flattery and proposals , and so he walked off embarrassed and sad.
16	zenith	noun	The highest point, culmination	At the zenith of his artistic career , Elvis was outselling any other artists on the charts.
17	perennial	adjective	Lasting an indefinitely long time , eternal , everlasting	Aisyah is a perennial novel writer as she always satisfied her readers expectation.
18	excruciating	adjective	Extremely painful	My mother experienced excruciating pain when she gave birth to me.
19	affable	adjective	Likeable , easy to talk to	The class become a little bit boring when the affable Nazmi is not around.
20	detrimental	adjective	Causing harm or injury	Many know that smoking is detrimental to your health ,but processed sugar in large quantities is equally bad.
21	credence	noun	Belief in something	He placed no credence in physics.
22	impeccable	adjective	Without fault or error	He was impeccably dressed in the latest fashion without a single stain.
23	relegate	verb	Assign to a lower position	When Dexter was unable to fulfil his basic duties , instead of firing him , the boss relegated him to kitchen cleanup.
24	misanthrope	noun	A hater of mankind	Kevin is such a misanthrope that he refused to attend the Christmas party ,claming that everyone ‘s happiness was fake and annoying.
25	thwart	verb	Hinder or prevent (the efforts , plans or desires ) of	I wanted to spend a week in New York this autumm , but high costs of travel thwarted my plans.