Vocab

Adventitious (adj): happening or carried on according to CHANCE rather than DESIGN or INHERENT nature; coming from outside, not native; unplanned/casual/random/serendipitous/fortuitous/coincidental

Angst (n): a feeling of persistent worry about something trivial; a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general

Hubris (n): excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance, conceit, haughtiness

Decoct (v): to extract the flavor of by boiling; boil down, concentrate

Hirsute (adj): hairy; covered with coarse stiff hairs {He wore a hirsute mask to the Halloween party.}

Fantod (n): a state of irritability and tension; fidgets; an emotional outburst: fit

Corollary (adj/n): forming a proposition that follows from one already proved

Menagerie (n): a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition

Crepitate (v): to make a crackling sound; to make a series of short, sharp noises

Senescence (n): the state of being old; the process of becoming old; the growth phase in a plant or plant part from full maturity to death

Teem (v): to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantity

Pertinent (adj): relating to the thing that is being thought about or discussed

Impertinent (adj): rude, and showing lack of respect; irrelevant

Saucy (adj): rude, usually in a lively and playful way; impertinently bold and impudent; amusingly forward and flippant; smart, trim

Arch (adj): mischievous, saucy; marked by a deliberate or often forced playfulness, irony, or impudence

Chirk (adj): inf. to cheer (up); 'chirk each other up'; to make a shrill, chirping noise

Rectitude (n): the quality of being honest and morally correct

Probity (n): adherence to the highest principles and ideals; uprightness; honesty, honor, integrity

Pluvial (adj): of or pertaining to rain; occurring through the action of rain

Deracinate (v): uproot; to remove or separate from a native environment or culture: esp. to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from

Serendipity (n): finding nice stuff that you weren't looking for: an instance of this

Sooth (n): truth, reality, or fact; (adj) true or real

Appropriate (v): to take or use (something) especially in a way that is illegal, unfair, etc.; to get or save money for a specific use or purpose

Filch (v): to appropriate furtively or casually; to steal (something of little value)

Erogenous (adj): (of a part of the body) sensitive to sexual stimulation

Quixotic (adj): exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

Cursory (adj): hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

Cavil (v): to complain about things that are not important

Quibble (v): to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words

Saccharine (adj): too sweet or sentimental; sweet or sentimental in a way that does not seem sincere or genuine

Nefarious (adj): evil, immortal, wicked, impious

Verbose (adj): using, or expressed in, more words than needed

Passim (adv): here and there; "her strongly worded footnotes appear passim"

Elide (v): to omit, curtail, abridge; to strike out as a written word; to suppress or alter syllable(s)

Amenable (adj): willing to agree or to accept something that is wanted or asked for; capable of submission; readily brought to yield; , submit, or cooperate; willing; answerable

Loquacity (n): the state or quality of being very talkative

Garrulous (adj): tending to talk a lot; very talkative; wordy;

Fecund (adj): producing or able to produce many babies, young animals, or plants; prolific, fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree {a fecund imagination}

Somber (adj): very sad and serious; having a dull or dark color; grave, gloomy

Dissolute (adj): used to describe someone (such as a person who often gets drunk) whose way of living is considered morally wrong; lacking restrain; marked by indulgence in things deemed vices

Libertine (n): a person (especially a man) who leads an immortal life and is mainly interested in sexual pleasure; a freethinker especially in religious matters

Equivocate (v): to use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone; to avoid committing oneself to what one says

Immanent (adj): indwelling, inherent; being within the limits of possible experience or knowledge

Consanguine (adj): of the same blood or origin; descended from the same ancestor

Milieu (n): the social or physical setting in which something occurs or develops; environment {the freewheeling milieu that a big city offers}

Inglenook (n): a space on either side of a fireplace/hearth

Anodyne (adj): serving to alleviate pain; not likely to offend or arouse tensions, innocuous, safe

Dulcify (v): to make more agreeable; mollify; appease; to sweeten (Latin "dulcis" = sweet)

Seminal (adj): strongly influencing later developments