Vocab 5 Albee 2025

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Wearisome

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Physically or mentally tiring or tedious. Not to be misused or confused with worrisome, which means causing anxiety or stress.

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Vigilant

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Watchful and alert, especially to danger or wrongdoing.

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Vernacular

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The everyday language of people as spoken in a particular country or region, in contrast to an official or formal language. The common spoken language of a group, as compared to formal written or literary language.

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Vehement

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Expressed with intense feelings and conviction. Strongly felt, or marked by high emotion. Forceful and emphatic; vigorous.

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Tumult

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A violent, chaotic, or noisy commotion; an uproar. A psychological or emotional upheaval or agitation. Major mudslides cause tumult.

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Transpire

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To give off water vapor, especially through the surfaces of plant leaves. To be exposed; to come to light and become known. To occur.

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Tantalizing

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Attractive and tempting, often due to unavailability or unattainability. In Aesop's fable, the fox found the grapes tantalizing in part because he could not reach them.

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Speculative

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Based on conjecture or incomplete information. Describes opinions or conclusions not based on facts. Risky, in terms of an investment that is potentially profitable.

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Scapegoat

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Someone who is made to take the blame for others. Someone who is unjustly blamed for causing upset or distress. Derives from an ancient Jewish practice of selecting a goat to accept the sins of a community.

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Reprehensible

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Extremely unacceptable and deserving of censure. Abhorrent and morally inexcusable.