Vocabulary Unit 4 Set 1

Having a background of wealth and luxury; having a golden coating, which often hides rust or disrepair.

• Gilded

• Tinged

• Emblazoned

Attractive in appearance, especially in an old fashioned way; resembling a painted scene.

• Picturesque

• Semblance

• Portraiture

Excessively talkative, especially about trivial matters.

• Taciturn

• Garrulous

• Reticent

Long, slow, or dull; tiresome and monotonous.

• Tedious

• Lachrymose

• Insipid

Seemingly endless; continuing for so long as to be boring.

• Copious

• Impertinent

• Interminable

To delay activity with idle stops and pauses; to stand in a public place without obvious reason.

• Mollify

• Foray

• Loiter

The state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.

• Abdication

• Squalor

• Endemic

Pleasing because of being unusual or old-fashioned.

• Quaint

• Marginalia

• Prosaic

Slow to act or likely to cause delay.

• Careen

• Cloying

• Dilatory

Relating to the idea of time; relating to worldly concepts as opposed to spiritual/ethereal ones.

• Temporal

• Empyrean

• Supernal