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.

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.