Vocabulary Lesson #2

Sometimes words have more meanings than the ones we are used to:

1. chagrined ~ embarrassed
2. candor and contrition ~ truth and apology
3. animosity ~ hatred
4. conciliatory ~ friendly
5. desultory ~ off the topic
6. disconcerting ~ bewildering, questioning
7. fecklessness ~ ineffectiveness
8. hawkish ~ advocating war
9. individualist ~ independent thinker
10. intransigence ~ obstinacy, stubbornness
11. irreverent ~ flippant, lacking in seriousness
12. obstructionist ~ standing in the way
13. penury ~ poverty
14. relish ~ pleasure
15. infamy ~ bad reputation, fame
16. speculate ~ theorize
17. spurious ~ phony
18. stolid ~ unimaginative
19. stringent ~ strict
20. telling ~ effective