Vocabulary Set I

cowardly, craven 

• Poignant 
• Impetuous 
• Bellicose 
• Pusillanimous 

to cause, to produce, to give rise to 

• Wag 
• Apprise 
• Poignant 
• Engender 

a scheme or plot, a group of plotters 

• Lucubrate 
• Cabal 
• Wag 
• Poignant 

presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate, being a jerk 

• Luculuent 
• Overweening 
• Engender 
• Ostensible 

Lucubrate 

• to write in a scholarly fashion 
• to give notice to, to inform 
• controversial, argued 
• to cause, to produce, to give rise to 

seeming, appearing as such, professed 

• Bellicose 
• Ostensible 
• Engender 
• Irresolute 

Polemical 

• to write in a scholarly fashion 
• deceptive; an illusion 
• controversial, argued 
• to give notice to, to inform 

impulsive, forceful, with energy 

• Polemical 
• Illusory 
• Irresolute 
• Impetuous 

easily understood, lucid, clear 

• Poignant 
• Lucubrate 
• Luculuent 
• Cabal 

physically painful, distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional 

• Engender 
• Wag 
• Poignant 
• Luculuent