Vocabulary Week 23 Gold

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Vocabulary Week 23 GoldWord 1: Avarice Def: Extreme greed for wealth or material gain Sent: If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Word 2: Stellar Def: 1 Relating to stars 2 Outstanding in performanceSent: Overall game was good, but scoring aspect was less than stellar. Gil Morgan

Word 3: Prevail Def: Prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious Sent: A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. Henry David Thoreau

Word 4: Congenial Def: Of a pleasant disposition; friendly Sent: We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Word 5: Subside Def: To sink to a lower or normal level or settle down Sent: Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.Lord Byron

Word 6: Entice Def: Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.Sent: There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad

Word 7: Revile Def: To criticize with contemptuous, abusive language Sent: Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.Peter Lewis Allen

Word 8: Surly Def: Bad tempered and gruffSent: Before a prominent Western presence in China, surly waiters and surly salesclerks were pretty much what you'd expect.George Koo

Word 9: Unobtrusive Def: Not blatant, aggressive or conspicuous Sent: We try to put them in places where they'll be useful and unobtrusive.Keith Coleman

Word 10: Clarify Def: Explain more carefully Sent: Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept. Carl Becker

Word 11: LassitudeDef: Feeling of weariness, diminished energy Sent: Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.Lu Yu

Word 12: AbysmalDef: Extremely or hopelessly bad, appalling Sent: The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.Jon Holmes

Word 13: Benign Def: Of a character that does not threaten health Sent: I began to look at other religions, Buddhism and so on, and realized there is another way of looking at life. A more benign way of looking at life.Frank McCourt

Word 14: Caprice / CapriciousDef: A sudden, impulsive action or a sudden unpredictable change like weatherSent: Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.William Hazlitt

Word 15: Havoc Def: Widespread destruction or confusion Sent: All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will bring havoc, even within our lifetime.Kofi Annan

Word 16: PerniciousDef: Highly injurious or destructive Sent: Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. Allan Bloom

Word 17: Complacent Def: A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially with an unawareness of danger Sent: If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction...Colin Powell

Word 18: Uncouth Def: Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace Sent: There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth mannersEdmund Burke

Word 19: DankDef: Unpleasantly moist or wet Sent: 'Pirates of the Caribbean' was, at its root, a fun swashbuckler, ... 'King Arthur' was dark and dank. They forgot the fun.Brandon Gray

Word 20: RepleteDef: Abundantly provided or filledSent: Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.William Cowper