Vocab unit 11

A parent is most likely to foist which of the following on his children?

chores

United Nations officials there corroborated the attack in a report on Friday to the Security Council. In this sentence, corroborated means

confirmed

The article's greatest failing is that it does not include every salient point from Polish history, and a book-length analysis of all features of the country's contemporary political, economic and social development. In this sentence, salient means

conspicuous, prominent, or important

sear means to

singe/scorch

disseminate means to

spread/distribute

specious means

spurious/deceptive

abstemious means

temperate

In addition to its unique discursive style, the genre also has other recognizable attributes. In this sentence, discursive means

tending to cover a wide range of subjects

gauche means

inelegant/unpolished

foist means to

insert surreptitiously or without warrant

Something deeper, more pernicious was at work here: a wide division between the wealthy and the poor that was made worse by fear. In this sentence, pernicious means

insidious

At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama. In this sentence, perceptive means

insightful

inculcate means to

instill/impress

dowdy means

lacking in stylishness or taste

discursive means

logical/rambling

Yet she was an abstemious woman as a rule. In this sentence, abstemious means

marked by temperance in indulgence

denizen means

a person who inhabits a particular place

Which of the following is best described as contingent?

a planned picnic that depends upon the weather

Her tumor was an inch in size when it finally became palpable, Ms. Cappello said in an interview. In this sentence, palpable means

able to be feltby tactile examination

With such boldly expressed heresy, it's perhaps not surprising that Life and Fate caused a stir upon its completion in 1960.The manuscript was confiscated by the KGB and party ideologist Mikhail Suslov recommended banning it for 200 years. In this sentence, heresy means

any opinion at variance with the official position

corroborate means to

establish or stregthen as woth new evidence or facts

sear means to

become superficially burned

palpable means

capable of being percieved

The opposite of corroborate is

deny

In an interview, Professor Somin said the prison's action was reminiscent of a media frenzy in the 1980s surrounding the supposedly pernicious effects of gaming. In this sentence, pernicious means

detrimental

pernicious means

detrimental

denizen means

dweller

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. In this sentence, pernicious means

exceedingly harmful

florid means

fancy/elaborate/flamboyant/ornate/ ruddy

The tables of inlaid gems and mosaic, the walls encrusted with relievos, the curious floors, the drapery—all satiate the eye with sumptuousness. In this sentence, satiate means to

fill

dowdy means

frumpy

The opposite of specious is

genuine

corroborate means to

give evidence for

Lytton was the lowest human being he had ever known, degenerated to an organism that lived solely to satiate its most unworthy appetites. In this sentence, satiate means to

glut

The phenomenon of being "big in Japan" dates back to when Japanese record-buyers were condescendingly regarded as kooky and gauche, prone to aiming their affection for western culture at the wrong targets. In this sentence, gauche means

graceless

Acute — some might say neurotic — self-consciousness is one of modern art's salient features. In this sentence, salient means

having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

perceptive means

having the ability to understand

salient means

outstanding

Enjoy the view indoors, too, as this trendy, glass-and-steel bar is one of the top places to see, and be seen, by both jet-setters and Istanbul's most glamorous denizens. In this sentence, denizens means

people who inhabit a particular place

palpable means

perceptible

contingent means

possible but not certain to occur/ delegation

In division, you start by summarizing the salient points of agreement, then set out the points that are at issue. In this sentence, salient means

principal

discursive means

proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument

satiate means to

replete/ overeat or eat immodestly

They attacked Mr. Obama, saying that he had tried to foist a big-spending government on an unreceptive public, that he was weak in his dealings with foreign leaders, and that he was coddling terrorism suspects. In this sentence, foist means to

to force onto another

heresy means

unorthodoxy