Vocabulary Week 1

Vocabulary Week 25 GoldWord 1: Grueling Def: Difficult and demanding continuous effort Sent: Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. Janet Jackson

Word 2: Incentive Def: Something that makes you work harder Sent: Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev

Word 3: Intervene Def: Become involved in a situation in order to try to stop it or to come between Sent: Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.Lawrence Durrell

Word 4: Conciliatory Def: To do something that helps end an argument or makes someone less mad Sent: Both sides are going to have to have a conciliatory frame of mind and a willingness to meet half way; you cannot dig your feet in.Eddie Quinn

Word 5: Dapper Def: Sharply dressed and stylish Sent: This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. Geena Davis

Word 6: Coerce Def: Persuade an unwilling person to do something by using force or threats. Sent: But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. Mahatma Gandhi

Word 7: Glutton Def: Habit of eating or drinking to excess Sent: Thanksgiving is Americas national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. Michael Dresser

Word 8: Misnomer Def: A use of a wrong or inappropriate name Sent: To call that an investigation is a misnomer. It was an interview. That's all it was.Tom Sneddon

The game was invented in Germany

The koala bear is not a bearWord 9: Acrimonious Def: Angry and bitter language or feeling Sent: He feels that it is important for the parties to move away from the contentious, acrimonious issues and explore areas where they can send positive signals to the other side.Rauf Hakeem

Word 10: Accentuate Def: To make something more noticeable Sent: Delete the negative; Accentuate the positive! Donna Karan

Word 11: Inchoate Def: Just beginning and not yet formed Sent: Beginning where something is starting to form but not formed yet Sent: The environment does not give (man) potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic formA Maslow

Word 12: Oxymoron Def: A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side Sent: Privacy on the Internet? That's an oxymoron.Catherine Butler

Word 13: Squalid Def: Extremely dirty and unpleasant conditions Sent: It was heartbreaking to see people, pregnant women, elderly in wheelchairs, in those cramped, squalid conditions without food, water and toilets. John Edwards

Word 14: Delineate Def: Describe something precisely. Sent: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.Thomas Jefferson

Word 15: Quaint Def: Attractively unusual or old-fashioned Sent: Every big city has its little communities, but they don't have the quaint, small-town charm.Michael Goss

Word 16: Rudimentary Def: Relating to basic facts or principles, the earliest stages of development Sent: The only thing they can do is very rudimentary tasks like finding a point on a map. Stephane Baldi

Word 17: Sophomoric Def: Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment Sent: It's so silly and sophomoric. I'm not particularly outraged. It's certainly not the worst insult I've received.Bob Littlefield

Word 18: Capitulate Def: Cease to resist an opponent, surrender Sent: I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.Samuel Johnson

19Word 19: Imperceptible Def: Impossible to perceive or see Sent: As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.Lacy Hunt

Word 20: Converge Def: Come together from different directions so as eventually to meet Sent: Happiness is a sunbeam which when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. Jane Porter

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