English-Unit 4 Vocabulary

nonchalant

(adj.) cool and confident, unconcerned.

venial

(adj.) easily excused; pardonable.

scrupulous

(adj.) exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards.

cogent

(adj.) forceful, convincing.

finite

(adj.) having limits; lasting for a limited time.

omniscient

(adj.) knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding.

invulnerable

(adj.) not able to be wounded or hurt; shielded against attack.

supercilious

(adj.) proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority.

malevolent

(adj.) spiteful, showing ill will.

uncanny

(adj.) strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation.

affiliated

(adj., part.) associated, connected.

panacea

(n.) a remedy for all ills, cure-all; an answer to all problems.

attainment

(n.) an accomplishment; the act of achieving.

expunge

(v.) to erase, obliterate, destroy.

ascertain

(v.) to find out.

bequeath

(v.) to give or pass on as an inheritance.

skulk

(v.) to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding.

converge

(v.) to move toward one point, approach nearer together.

esteem

(v.) to regard highly; (n.) a highly favorable opinion or judgement.

disperse

(v.) to scatter, spread far and wide.