DULY NOTED VOCAB WORDS
- FULSOME: offensive from excess of praise.
- OSTENSIBLE: appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
- MILITATE: to have force or influence.
- VERNACULAR: abstarct use of vocabulary; ancillary terms; lingo.
- FAUX: fake; to have been fooled.
- AFFABLE: friendly; pleasurable.
- STOIC: brave; bold; heroic.
- DOVETAIL: to join together; to come together nicely with intent; segue.
- EPICUREAN: large; gigantic; of large or over-sized proportion.
- SAGACIOUS: bold or rash; to the point of the matter; of keen penetration and judgement; wise.
- CONCINNITY: elegance; used chiefly of literary style.
- HYPNAGOGIC: leading to sleep; hypnotic.
- PERORATE: to conclude or sum up a long discourse; to speak at length.
- PERFIDY: faithlessness; treachery.
- ANCILLARY: subordinate; subsidiary; auxiliary.
- AVOIRDUPOIS: weight; heaviness.
- TRENCHERMAN: a hearty eater.
- MOLLIFY: to reduce in intensity; to soothe; to soften.
- SUPINE: lying on the back; also, indolent; listless.
- CENSURE: to criticize severely; an expression of disapproval.
- EXTEMPORANEOUS: composed; performed; uttered on the spur of the moment.
- OVERWEENING: overbearing; excessive.
- DISSIMULATE: to hide under a false appearance; to feign or pretend.
- INSCRUTABLE: difficult to fathom or understand.
- VIVIFY: to endue with life; to enliven.
- SATIETY: fullness to or beyond the point of satisfaction.
- CRUX: the essential point or feature.
- GALUMPH: to move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread.
- ENTREAT: to ask for or request earnestly.
- RUMINATIVE: to meditate or muse; ponder.
- OMINOUS: portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.
- DISQUIETING: causing anxiety or uneasiness; disturbing.
- POPINJAY: a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- BLOVIATE: to speak pompously; to discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- PLACATE: to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
- LASCIVIOUS: inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd.
- PONTIFICATE: the office or term of office of a pontiff; to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
- WONT: accustomed; used; custom; habit; practice.
- AMENABLE: ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable.