Here are the first three weeks of vocabulary words for our next vocabulary test:
- masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
- sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain
- conspicuous: obvious
- land lubber: a person who spends most of his/her life on land (not at sea)
- misogynist: a person who hates women
- purport: to make a false or questionable claim
- eminence: high placement/elevation or importance in rank
- misanthrope: a person who hates others (mankind/humanity)
- gullible: easily fooled; easily duped
- presumptuous: a person rudely bold; one who goes beyond the limits of what is acceptable
- devious: underhanded; dishonest; cunning
- imbibe: to drink (often alcohol); to absorb ideas--this is a lesser used meaning
- logophile: a lover of words
- flamboyant: loud and showy; attracting attention
- frivolous: lack of seriousness; lack of sense
- plethora: an abundance; and excessive amount
- vile: evil or disgusting
- tommyrot: complete and utter nonsense
- void: the emptiness and lack of life that is space (noun--I'll test you on the noun) OR to cancel--as in a cheque--or to empty--as in one's bladder (verb)
- delirious: confused; hallucinating; in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech
- profuse: abundant
- tacit: silent agreement or understanding; communicating with looks, not words
- mitigate: to make less severe, less serious, or less painful
- largesse: generosity; bounty
- loom: to hover in a threatening manner (verb)
- lurid: scandalous; sensational
- detrimental: having a bad or negative effect
- intrinsic: extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
- serendipity: good luck; happy chance
- torrid: blistering hot; passionate
