Wednesday, October 2, 2013

More vocab

Last night, I rearranged my stick-it notes.  I grouped them into categories.

HAVING TO DO WITH TALK v BEING CAPABLE OF PREDICATING TALK
Pellucid - able to transmit light through
Lucid - Easily understandable
Aver - To report or maintain as true
Laconic - brief and to the point
Brusque - marked by rude or preemptory shortness (one might say that this is the negative connotation of laconic)
Felicitous - appropriate or fitting to the situation
Pointed - having a point
Punctilious - meticulous, exact, conscientiousness, painstaking
Meticulous - carefully detailed, detail orientated
Anecdotal - short narratives, having the quality of
Effigy - a image or likeness (made in the likeness of something) from the latin figurare, fiction

DISORDERLY
Desultory - lacking plan or purpose
Vacillating - incapable of deciding on course of action or belief
Bedlam - state of extreme confusion or confusion
Inchoate - not fully formed

DECEPTION
Prevaricate - to speak falsely; to deliberately mislead, or create the wrong impression
Guile - Assiduous cunning in attaining a goal; interminable deceitful means of attaining a goal  
Furtive - taken, done by stealth
Chicanery - trickery
Surreptitious - taken, done by stealth

RELATING TO DISTANCE
Apogee - high point; furtherest point away from point A
Apex - far away; high point

Perigee - nearest point of a heavenly body to earth ]]

PREDICATING TALK IN A BAD WAY
Vituperate - to address with harsh language
Acrimonious - caustic, stinging, bitter
Salacious - lusty, characterized by lust
Scourge - a whip that is used to beat someone, but also language that is biting
Excoriate - to rip the skin off, but also language that is severely hurtful
Chastise - to censure severely
Cosseted - to treat as a pet or pamper (as in, talking down to someone)

POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES
Ambrosial - sweet smelling and or tasting
ANTONYM: INSIPID - lacking taste or flavor 
Sanguine - optimistic
Blithe - happy joyous and free

RELATING TO PARTS, PIECES
Detritus - small rubble broken away from a larger chunk
Pulverous - being in a state of pulverized

BEING OR RELATED TO SLEEP
Torpor - hibernation
Quiescent -inactive, being in a state of rest
Soporific - causing to sleep
Mournful - gloomy, sorrowful, grief, death (all metaphorized as "down" in western culture and assosicated with sleep)

PERTURBATION
Vex -to annoy, perturb
Petulant - easily annoyed

OF or RELATING TO DISCORD
Detente - a easing of the tension between two sides (by negotiations)
Capitulate - to give into the demands
Precipitate - to bring about a sudden change, quickly without deliberation
Impetuous - impulsive, having sudden force

NOT BELONGING
Repudiate - to not recognize as valid
Pariah - outcast

There's more but I haven't been able to categorize them yet...


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