vocab 12-14

Question 0

burnish

Answer 0

to make shiny by rubbing; to polish. burnisher, burnishes, burnished, burnishing.
Dan burnishes his grandmother’s old silver once a week; since she passed away, he has felt it has been his duty to keep the silver polished.

Question 1

buoyant

Answer 1

capable of floating; cheerful, happy
Derivatives: buoyancy, buoyantly, buoyant, buoy, buoyantness.
Serene’s test to see if her boat was buoyant proved most helpful; if she had not tested it’s capability to remain afloat, it may have sunk once she tried to sail it.

Question 2

despondency

Answer 2

dejection, depression.
despondent, despondence, despondently, desponding.
Milly’s despondency after breaking her leg right before her soccer game was understandable; of course she would be upset that she couldn’t play in the biggest game of the year.

Question 3

despotic

Answer 3

ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical.
despotically, despotical, despotism, despotist, despotize, despot.
Pippin tried not rule despotically, but he found himself using the same oppressive techniques that he swore he wouldn’t.

Question 4

discern

Answer 4

to differentiate between two or more things.
discerner, discernible, discernibleness, discernibility, discernibly, discerning, discerningly, discernment.
Paul always found it hard to discern between the twins; Margret and Kennedy looked and acted very similar.

Question 5

forbearance

Answer 5

patience, lenience
forbear, forbearing, forbearer, forbearingly, forbearant, forbore, forbearingness
Claudia’s forbearance is helped her through hard times; she knew with patience she would make it through eventually.

Question 6

venerate

Answer 6

to honor, to revere, to respect.
veneration, venerability, venerable, venerational, venerating, venerator.
My great veneration for Lin-Manuel might cause me to spend $600 on tickets to see his new Broadway show; I honor him that much.

Question 7

inveterate

Answer 7

firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted.

inveterately, inveterateness.

Question 8

vista

Answer 8

a distant view seen through an opening.
vistaed, vistas.
Campbell looked out the window in his Spanish class and saw a vista of a forest; how he wished he could escape into that distant view.

Question 9

voluptuous

Answer 9

pleasurable to the senses; sensuous.
voluptuosity, voluptuousness, voluptuale, voluptuously.
Hailee’s voluptuousness always gets her offers of free drinks, although she usually turns them down; she’s looking for guys interested in more than her sensuous body.

Question 10

antidote

Answer 10

something that relieves the effect of poison.
antidotal.
When I got stung by a jellyfish, a lifeguard put meat tenderizer on me as a sort of an antidote; it was supposed to help stop the toxins, but if sure didn’t feel any better to me.

Question 11

decorousness

Answer 11

proper behavior.
decorum, decorously, decorous.
The way Lilly slapped Josh did not show off her decorousness well; it was impolite for Lilly, a young lady, to behave in such a way.

Question 12

extant

Answer 12

still in existence.
Monty often wishes the wooly mammoth was extant rather than extinct; if it was still around, Monty would surely love to study it.

Question 13

husband

Answer 13

to manage prudently and in a conservative manner; to conserve (resources)
husbandry, husbandman, husbandly, husbander, husbandland.
Pete must husband his energy if he wants to make it through the marathon; if he uses all his energy in the first part, he will have none left to finish the race.

Question 14

impugn

Answer 14

to assail or to attack one’s integrity or honor.
impugnable, impugnation, impugnment.
Sheila broke up with Andrew after his impugnment of Stephen Sondheim; she couldn’t deal with someone who insulted her favorite artist’s honor like that.

Question 15

insidious

Answer 15

treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way.
insidiously, insidiousness.
Sororities and fraternities can often be insidious things; although they seem like fun on the surface, they are often dangerous and dark on the inside.

Question 16

melancholy

Answer 16

sad; depression of spirits.
melancholia, melancholic, melancholiac, melancholically, melancholily, melancholiness, melancholious.
Kira was melancholy because of the rain; she therefore spent all day in the worst of moods, and no one could cheer her up.

Question 17

mettle

Answer 17

courage, spirit.
mettles, mettled, mettlesome.
Jack showed lots of mettle when he organizes protests; his bravery was often what makes them such successes.

Question 18

precociousness

Answer 18

exceptionally early in development or occurrence.
precocious, precociously, precocity.
The Whole Foods being built near my apartment is far from being precocious; it was supposed to be open by now but it barely halfway finished.

Question 19

sanctify

Answer 19

to set apart for sacred use, to make holy, to purify.
sanctification, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctity, sanctitude.
The fact that the candles were sanctified makes it even worse than they were stolen; stealing holy candles is an even greater sin than stealing regular candles.