Vocab List 2 Flashcards
Amiable
Having or displaying a friendly manner
My counselor is an amiable person and gives good advice
Succumb
To give up to a superior force
A lot of kids in school succumb to peer pressure.
Apprehensive
Feeling or showing anxiety about something in the future
He felt apprehensive before he pressed the big red button.
Verbatim
In the exact words or word for word
When we cite evidence from the text, we usually have to do it verbatim
Bayou
A creek or minor river
I remember the Tiana’s Bayou ride at Disney.
Vibrant
Pulsating with life, vigor or activity
The colors in Universal Studios are vibrant.
Vibrantly, Vibrance
Callous
Feeling or showing no emotion or sympathy
I have not met many people who I consider to be callous.
Callously, Callousness
Commendable
To recommend as worthy of confidence or notice
I think the band is very commendable for their hard work.
Commends, commend, Commended, commending
Grimace
A facial expression of disgust
I saw the children grimace as they have to go inside after recess.
Grimaced, grimacing, grimacer
Indignant
Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust
I felt indignant about them cheating.
Indignantly
Indomitable
Impossible to be destroyed
Indomitability, Indumitableness, indimitably
Ineffectual
Not producing the proper or intended effect
Ineffectuality, Ineffectually ineffectualness
Judicious
Being a wise person
Judiciously, Judiciousness
Malleable
Capable of being extended or shaped
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Melodramatic
Relating to or characteristic of melodrama
Melodramatically
Mystic
Relating to mysteries
Mystically
Paraphrase
Putting Something into your own words
- We paraphrase long passages in class
- paraphrases, paraphrasing
Personification
Giving unhuman things human qualities
- Personifying is a language device
Visage
The apperence of a person
- I Saw his visage in the Corner of my eye
Whimsical
Characterized as light and fanciful
- The decorations were whimsical
- Whimsically
