Academic Vocab 61-80 (Sets 1-5)

Of vital or critical importance; crucial; essential

• innocuous

• pivotal

• stanza

• voluminous

Hesitant for ethical reasons; strict; careful

• contrite

• scrupulous

• apocryphal

• subtle

Indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain or to joy or grief; aloof; detached; matter-of-fact

• stoic

• ascetic

• taciturn

• tenacious

Relating to a person who is pleasure-seeking; indulgent

• hackneyed

• pretentious

• sycophant

• hedonistic

A generous donor or kindly helper; philanthropist; contributor; patron

• benefactor

• rejuvenate

• saccharine

• sycophant

Of doubtful origin; false; fictitious; equivocal

• auspicious

• apocryphal

• torpor

• subtle

Pointing to a good result; favorable; promising

• ambulatory

• fickle

• auspicous

• blithe

Likely to change; capricious; whimsical; unpredictable

• supercilious

• immutable

• incessant

• fickle

Made commonplace; banal; trite; cliche

• innocuous

• provinical

• banal

• hackneyed

Occurring by chance; accidental; fortunate; serendipitous

• fortuitous

• auspicious

• propriety

• supercilious