Here are the first three weeks of vocabulary words for our next vocabulary test:
- contentment: the state of wanting for nothing; happily satisfied
- mitigate: to make less severe, less serious, or less painful
- grim: looking/being harsh or stern
- draconian: harsh or severe in manner
- misogynist: a person who hates women
- misanthrope: a person who hates others (mankind/humanity)
- masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
- sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain
- profuse: abundant
- tacit: agreement or understanding without words/silent agreement or silent understanding
- uxoricide: the act of killing one's wife
- pulchritude: beauty
- intrinsic: extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
- consolidate: to unite; to bring together
- neophyte: an amateur; someone who is completely new to a place or a process
- covet: to be envious; to desire what another person has
- charisma: charm; a magnetic quality which attracts people
- largesse: bounty; generosity
- infatuated: to be intensely passionate about someone or something
- enfeebled: to make weak or feeble
- loom: to hover in a threatening manner (verb)
- lurid: scandalous; shocking
- detrimental: having a bad or negative effect
- purport: to make a false or questionable claim
- serendipity: good luck; happy chance
- torrid: blistering hot; passionate
- tommyrot: utter nonsense
- austere: extremely plain/unadorned; strict in manner, attitude or appearance
- slugabed: a lazy person who stays in bed long past the time he or she should rise
- elucidate: to make clear through explanation; to shed light on something
- martyr: one who dies for a cause
