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

Vocabulary Lesson #1

(I'm always wanting to increase my vocabulary, so why not include you all?)

How many do you know without looking at the definition?

1. deter
2. ex cathedra
3. disavow
4. disconcert
5. insouciance
6. perceive
7. presage
8. reiterate
9. indiscreet
10. detritus
11. educe
12. eclipsed
13. reconstitute
14. preclue
15. impose
16. pervade
17. escapism
18. retrospective
19. elicit
20. prerequisite