Vocab 2

garrulous

talkative

stoical

(adj.) Seemingly unaffected by pleasure or pain; Unemotional; Impassive

transient

(adj.) lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who stays only a short time

noisome

(adj.) offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious

vex

(v.) to annoy, anger, exasperate; to confuse, baffle

voracious

Excessively greedy, rapacious; having a great appetite for something

stolid

Not feeling or showing emotion, impassive; not easily aroused or excited

rapacious

aggressively greedy or grasping

nascent

coming into existence; emerging

sordid

dirty

squalid

filthy, wretched, debased

noxious

harmful; poisonous; lethal

ambivalent

having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

irresolute

indecisive, uncertain

inchoate

just beginning; not fully shaped or formed

ephemeral

lasting a very short time

mitigate

make less severe, serious, or painful

loquacious

talkative

irk

to irritate, annoy

palliate

to make less serious; ease To provide relief from pain