notes in class

1.   accede (v.) 

-To agree.

-example: They ar ready to accede to our request for further information.

2.   accelerate (v.)

-To move faster.

-example: Fertilizer will accelerate the growth of these tomato plants.

3.   accessory (n.)

-A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

-example: He was using his accessory muscles of respiration.

4.   mutiny (n.)

-Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.

-example: Discontented men stirred the crew to mutiny.

5.   myriad (n.)

-A vast indefinite number.

-example: A myriad of stars surround the moon.

6.   cant (v.)

- To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.

-example: It was their favorite cant.

7.   callow (adj.)

-Without experience of the world.

-example: I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I don't believe now.

8.    cajole (v.)

-To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.

-example: They tried to cajole their daughter out of marrying him.

9.    cadence (n.)

-Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.

-example: Frances spoke with a soft, musical Edinburgh cadence.

10.    Brevity (n.)

-the quality of using few words when speaking or writing

-example: The report is a masterpiece of brevity.

11.   blockade (n.)

-the action of surrounding or closing a place, especially a port, in order to stop people or goods from coming in or out

-example: The police set up blockades on highways leading out of the city.

12.   boisterous (adj.)

-of people, animals or behavior / noisy and full of life and energy

-example: It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused.

13.   bolster (v.)

-to improve something or make it stronger

-example: Falling interest rates may help to bolster up the economy.

14.   brandish (v.)

-to hold or wave something, especially a weapon, in an aggressive or threatening way

-example: She answered with a brandish of her umbrella.

15.   undulate (v.)

-to move like a wave or in waves.

-example: We soon see a field of wheat undulate In the breeze.

16.   absent-minded (adj.)

- lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

-example: He's very learned but rather absent-minded.

17.  absolve (v.)

-to free from sin or its penalties.

-example: The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.

18.   absorption (n.)

-the process of a liquid, gas or other substance being taken in

-example: Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food.

19.   unsophisticated (adj.)

- showing inexperience.

-example: He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, companionable.

20.   urchin (n.)

-a roguish, mischievous boy.

-example: An urchin girl stood there, wrapped in a huge shawl.

21.   venerable (adj.)

-meriting or commanding high esteem.

-example: The vendor was a venerable Irishman.

22.   verdant (adj.)

-green with vegetation.

-example: He travels through the lush and verdant landscape of the island.

23.   abyss (n.)

-a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom

-example: Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.

24.   academic (adj.)

-connected with education, especially studying in schools and universities

-example: The students return in October for the start of the new academic year.

25.   beau (n.)

-a woman's male lover or friend

-example: The magnificent beau is dancing to the light of chandeliers.