Word: Blissfully
Parts of Speech: Adverb Meaning: In a manner characterized by extreme happiness or joy. Example: No woman, even the right kind, would expect to settle down blissfully into that.
Word: Offbeat
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Unconventional or Unusual. Example: She figured I’m obviously a pretty offbeat and exciting guy. She’s a little offbeat, but she’s a wonderful actress.
Word: Comparative
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Perceptable by comparison, relative. Example: A thirty-one-year-old grad student in comparative literature was working part-time in the UNC computer science department.
Word: Laureate
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A person who is honored with an award for an outstanding creative or intellectual achievement. Example: Her job was to host visitors, whether Nobel laureates or Girl Scout troops
Word: Funky
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Frightened, panicky, cool, trendy, fashionable, having or using a strong dance rhythm. Example: And then found the links to my funkier personal information.
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: C ulminate
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.
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