Here are the first three weeks of vocabulary words for our next vocabulary test:
- serendipity: good luck; happy chance
- adjacent: next to; adjoining
- atrocious: especially vicious or repellant
- detrimental: something which creates a bad or negative effect
- opportune: well-suited and well-chosen timing
- ailurophile: cat lover
- oblivious: totally unaware
- ebullience: bubbly enthusiasm
- fabricate: to make; invent
- to loom: to hover over someone/something in a threatening manner
- espionage: the act of spying, involving countries or corporations/industries
- vicinity: area
- redistribution: the act of sharing something between people in a different way
- abibliophobia: the fear of running out of books to read
- jubilation: extreme happiness; great rejoicing
- intrepid: fearless
- cantankerous: testy; cranky; bad-tempered
- feral: savage; wild
- lurid: shocking; sensational
- intrinsic: extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
- misogynist: a person who hates women
- misanthrope: a person who hates humanity; avoids human society
- sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain on others
- masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
- 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
- purport: to make a false or questionable claim
- torrid: blistering hot; passionate
