Word: Formidable
- Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun
- Meaning: Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
- Example: The most formidable brick wall I ever encountered in my life was just five feet, six inches tall, and absolutely beautiful.
Word: Adept
- Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun
- Meaning: Very proficient or skilled at something.
- Example: I was always pretty adept at charging through the brick walls in my academic and professional life.
Word: Courtship
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: A period during which a couple develops a romantic relationship.
- Example: I didn’t tell the audience the story about my courtship with my wife.
Word: Compulsion
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something.
- Example: I felt no compulsion to settle down.
Word: Tenured
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Having or denoting a permanent post, especially as a teacher or a professor.
- Example: Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better.
Word: Culminate
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Describes a high point or a Climactic stage in a process; end.
- Example: The goal of a Major League football team is to have their season culminate in a World Series victory.
Word: Conform
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Comply with rules, standards, or laws, to adapt to fit in with new conditions.
- Example: If you travel to a foreign country, you should conform to the local customs and adjust your usual wardrobe to a more modest one.
Word: Artisan
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: An Artisan has both the creativity and the skill to make a product.
- Example: Next to the straw market is the woodcarvers’ lane, where local artisans demonstrate their crafts and sell them made of wood.
Word: Climactic
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Consisting of or causing a climax
- Example: Slowly and climactically, Powell and Donovan finished a graphic and resounding story (I, Robot).
Word: Grizzled
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Having dark heirs mixed with grey or white.
- Example: Your dad’s grizzled beard might need a trim by the end of your two-week camping trip.
Word: Auditory
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Process of hearing.
- Example: If someone says "Surrender Dorothy" and you hear "Where's the laundry," you have an auditory problem.
Word: Tactile
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Relating to the sense of touch.
- Example: I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration (Fahrenheit 451).
Word: Kinesthetic
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: The sensory perception of the movement.
- Example: If you're interested in kinesthetic questions, you might consider going into physical therapy as a career.
Word: Autonomous
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Describes the things that function separately or independently.
- Example: The partitioning of India created several separate and autonomous jute economies.
Word: Aural
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Of or Pertaining to hearing.
- Example: If you have excellent aural abilities, it means that your ears work well. Aural means "pertaining to hearing."
Word: Straddle
- Parts of Speech: Verb/Noun
- Meaning: When you straddle something, you sit on it with one leg on each side, such as straddling a horse or fence.
- Example: Storage for a single object cannot straddle the two kinds of tablespaces.
Word: Queasy
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Queasy defines a feeling of nervousness, anxiety, or uneasiness.
- Example: The experience is not like that parasailing trip you took on a small boat where everyone was queasy by the end of the trip.
Word: Amenable
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Disposed or willing to comply, liable to answer to a higher authority.
- Example: But freshers don't always know how much thought goes into planning dining and how amenable the staff are to catering to special diets.
Word: Rambunctious
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Noisy and out of control.
- Example: Kids can be rambunctious when they are with their friends.
Word: Disembarked
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Leave a ship or aircraft or other vehicle.
- Example: The passengers disembarked at Tampa Bay port.
Word: Intertextuality
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: The relation between texts, especially literary ones.
- Example: Every text is a product of Intertextuality.
- This story describes the relationship between Irony and Intertextuality.
Word: Inherent
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: belonging to or being a part of the nature of a person or thing.
- Example: I tend to turn our inherent fear of failing into the fear of failing to meet my potential.
Word: Mosaic
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: A decoration on a surface made by setting small pieces of glass, tile, or stone of different colors into another material to make pictures or patterns.
- Example: Just like a mosaic, our lives are made up of many individual moments, experiences, and choices.
Word: Interpretation
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: The action of explaining the meaning of something.
- Example: The dispute is based on two widely differing interpretations of the law.
Word: Dialogic
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Relating to, characterized by, or participating in the dialogue.
- Example: A teaching and learning strategy called, “Dialogic Learning” is centered on conversation and engagement.
Word: Intrepid
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Bold, Brave, and Fearless.
- Example: The realm of rock climbing was conquered by intrepid adventurers, turning it into a realm of conquest.
Word: Harmonious
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Tuneful, Melodious, Not discordant, sweet-sounding.
- Example: The Arcade hummed with the harmonious clatter of players.
Word: Conquest
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Conquer, Vanquish, Defeat, Beat, Trounce.
- Example: The realm of rock climbing was conquered by intrepid adventurers, turning it into a realm of conquest.
Word: Triumph
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: A great victory or achievement, Conquest, Success, Achievement.
- Example: The domain of rock climbing was triumphed over by daring adventurers, transforming it into a realm of conquest.
Word: Clatter
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: To make a loud rattling sound, A continuous rattling sound of hard objects falling or striking each other.
- Example: The Arcade hummed with the harmonious clatter of players.
Word: Impassable
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Impossible to travel along or over.
- Example: Some of the roads are impassable because they are covered with water.
- After the heavy snow, many roads were impassable.
Word: Contrast
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: Compare two people or things to show the difference between them.
- The state of being strikingly different from something else; difference; dissimilarity; disparity.
- Example: People contrasted her with her sister.
- The day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine.
Word: Reckless
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Dangerous and without care or concern for negative effects.
- Careless, heedless, or thoughtless.
- Example: His behavior was reckless in the extreme.
Word: Refrain
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Stop oneself from doing something.
- Abstain, hold back, stop oneself, withhold.
- Example: Please refrain from smoking.
- She could not refrain from weeping at these words.
Word: Pulse
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Throb or beat rhythmically, vibrate, palpitate, beat, pound, thud, thump.
- Example: The basketball courts pulsed with the vibrant energy of youth.
Word: Galley
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: The Kitchen in a ship or aircraft.
- Example: He cleaned the Galley.
Word: Infer
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Conclude, deduce.
- Example: His own nature could be inferred from the nature of his work.
Word: Arouse
- Parts of Speech:
- Meaning: Provoke, evoke, or awaken a feeling, response, or emotion.
- Example: I don’t want to arouse the neighbor’s curiosity.
Word: Vivisection
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: The practice of performing a surgery on a living organism for experimental purposes.
- Example: They have been anti-vivisection campaigners for years.
Word: Sclerosis
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Abnormal hardening of body tissue, excessive resistance to change.
- Example: The challenge was to avoid Institutional sclerosis.
Word: Imagineer
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: A person who is skilled at putting creative ideas into practice.
- Example: So I dashed off my letters of application to Walt Disney Imagineering.
Word: Persistent
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Continuing to exist or endure over a prolonged period of time.
- Example: I was ridiculously persistent, and I kept getting passed on and on until I was connected to a guy named Jon.
Word: Parrot
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: Repeat mechanically; A vividly colored bird.
- Example: It’s easy to look smart when you are parroting smart people.
Word: Sabbatical
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Adjective
- Meaning: A period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel.
- Example: After i explained the concept of sabbaticals, he thought it would be a fine idea to have me spend mine with his team.
Word: Hypothesize
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Make a really good educated guess.
- Example: And so I asked lots of data-seeking questions, and found myself hypothesizing along with the doctors.
Word: Predicament
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.
- Example: If you are engaged with somebody but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament.
Word: Comprehend
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Understand, grasp, take-in. Get the meaning of something, become aware of through the senses.
- Example: When you comprehend something, you grasp its meaning.
Word: Interpretation
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious.
- A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
- Example: The first interpretation is mainly true but not very significant, but not very significant; the second would be significant, but is untrue (The Invention of Science).
Word: Metadata
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Data about data.
- A library catalog is metadata because it describes publications.
- Example: Then cataloguers describe the object physically and add context and metadata (Washington PostSep 13, 2016).
Word: Cynicism
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Cynicism is the feeling of distrust or that something isn’t going to work out well.
- Example: Some people feel cynicism when politicians makes big promises.
- How, in this age of cynicism, could I convince my audience that I'd really won these things? (The Last Lecture).
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