English Vocab Study 13

subtle

delicate, elusive, not obvious. Synonyms: attenuated, ethereal, inconspicuous, profound, slight, tenuous

audacity

excessive boldness, rashness, daring. Synonyms: cheek, chutzpah, effrontery, gall, hardihood, temerity

gluttonous

greedy for food and drink. Synonyms: rapacious, ravenous, voracious

didactic

instructive, designed to teach. Synonyms: educational, edifying, pedantic, teacherly

discord

lack of agreement, tension, strife. Synonyms: contention, dissension, variance

angular

lean; sharp cornered; gaunt. Synomyms: awkward, lank, scrawny, spare

hypocrite

one who is insincere or deceitful. Synonyms: bluffer, charlatan, malingerer, phony, quack, sophist

pacifistic

opposed to war or use of force. Synonyms: appeased, conciliated, mollified, placated, propitiated

mundane

ordinary, commonplace. Synonyms: banal, prosaic, routine, workaday

tranquil

peaceful, calm. Synonyms: placid, serene

toxic

poisonous. Synonyms: deadly, harmful, lethal, mephitic, noxious, septic, virulent

debacle

ridiculous failure. Synonyms: defeat, disaster, fiasco, havoc, trouncing

austere

strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic. Synonyms: severe

dissemination

the act of spreading widely; scattering. Synonyms: circulation, diffusion, promulgation, propagation

ominous

threatening. Synonyms: fateful, portentous

embellish

to decorate, to make beautiful with ornamentation. Synonyms: deck, garnish, ornament, adorn

revere

to honor, to regard with respect. Synonyms: adore, venerate, worship

lament

to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner. Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore

ascend

to move upward, to rise from a lower station. Synonyms: rise, scale

verbose

wordy, very talkative. Synonyms: bombastic, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, windy