Vocabulary Words
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Unit 1: Intelligence and Education

abjured - avoided

antecedents - ancestors

ardent - characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity.

aversion - a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it.

castigated - to be subjected to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism.

cliché - something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace.

constricted - to stultify, stop, or cause to falter; inhibit.

creosoted -

didactic - designed or intended to teach.

draught - A British version of the word "draft"

emulate - to strive to equal or excel.

equivocal - subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse.

etymology - the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

euphemism - the substitution of an agreeable of inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.

extradite - to deliver up to the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge.

garrulous - given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative.

impeccable - free from fault or blame; flawless.

impunity - exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

nominative - marking typically the subject of a verb.

obtuseness - difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression.

parallelopiped - a 6-faced polyhedron all of whose faces are parallelograms lying in pairs of parallel planes.

pedant - one who makes a show of knowledge.

perverse - turned away from what is right or good; improper.

piqued - to be excited or aroused by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff.

plaintive - expressive of suffering or woe; melancholy

posit - to assume or affirm the existence of; To set firmly.

relativism - a view that ethical truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them.

salutary - producing a beneficial effect; remedial.

scrabble - to scratch , claw, or grope about clumsily or frantically.

tawdry - cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality.