Spring Vocab List 1-3

unusually advanced or mature in development, especially maturity

• amicable

• precocious

• cogent

• insipid

understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite

• indignant

• sardonic

• subversive

• esoteric

deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable

• laudable

• epithet

• vapid

• bane

to the point; relevant; pertinent

• subversive

• insipid

• cogent

• amicable

feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

• indignant

• euphemism

• decry

• epithet

the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

• esoteric

• sardonic

• euphemism

• epithet

characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peacable

• laudable

• vapid

• convival

• amicable

friendly; agreeable; likes to have fun

• convivial

• amicable

• sardonic

• laudable

tending/intending to subvert/overthrow, destroy or undermine an established/existing system, especially a legally constituted gov. or set of beliefs

• indignant

• bane

• epithet

• subversive

a characterized word or phrase firmly associated with a person/thing and often used in place of an actual name/title

• precocious

• epithet

• euphemism

• decry