English 10, Period 8

Your 31 vocabulary words to date are as follows:

1. loquacious:  chatty; very talkative
2. adequate:  enough; satisfactory for a purpose
3. abrogate:  to cancel
4. inquisitive:  curious; questioning
5. conundrum:  a confusing or difficult situation
6. epoch:  a particular time in history or a person's life
7. theology:  the study of religion
8. vindicate:  to show to be right by providing justification
9. cynosure:  an object at the focal point of attention
10. boondoggle:  work of little value that is done simply to look busy
11. constraint:  something which restricts one's actions or power
12. toady:  one who tries to gain an advantage through pleasing someone (or through flattery)
13. insipid:  weak
14. intrepid:  fearless
15. insolent:  boldly rude or disrespectful
16. abiotic:  of or characterized by the absence of living things; a non-living part of the environment
17. fiend:  a wicked or cruel being
18. camaraderie:  friendship based on trust
19. existential:  concerned with existence, especially human existence; affirming or implying the existence of a thing
20. insidious: sinister or menacing
21. egotastic: being into yourself so much that it becomes annoying
22. innocuous:  harmless
23. trepidation:  fearfulness; anxiety
24. nonchalant:  unconcerned; elegantly casual
25. prosaic:  lacking imagination; ordinary
26. malevolent:  evil
27. benevolent:  kindly; good
28. amoral:  lacking a sense of morality (lacking a sense of right and wrong)
29. vex:  to frustrate; to annoy
30. candor:  honesty; frankness
31. arcane:  secret; obscure; known only by a few people