Word: Bluntness
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point.
- Example: Though Jai wasn’t thrilled with my bluntness and my know-it-all attitude, she said I was the most positive, upbeat person she’d ever met.
Word: Rattle
- Parts of Speech: Verb / Noun
- Meaning: Make a very rapid, short series of knocking or tapping sounds.
- Example: We did not leave the reception in a car with cans rattling from the rear bumper.
Word: Whisk
- Parts of Speech: Verb / Noun
- Meaning: Move quickly and nimbly.
- Example: Instead, we got into a huge, multicolored hot-air-balloon that whisked us off into the clouds.
Word: Beam
- Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb
- Meaning: Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.
- Shine, glow, radiate, Ray.
- Example: When we had stepped into the balloon, Jai was beaming.
Word: Disconcert
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Cause to lose one’s composure; Cause to feel embarrassment.
- Example: It didn’t sound like the destruction of the Hindenburg, but it was a little disconcerting.
Word: Intrigue
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: To arouse someone’s curiosity, desire, or interest.
- Example: She was intrigued enough to make a few phone calls to friends of hers in the community.
Word: Gun-shy
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Nervous and apprehensive (anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen).
- Example: She was getting gun-shy about getting serious again.
Word: Impishness
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Being playful and a little naughty.
- Example: She had this gorgeous long hair then, and this smile that said a lot about both her warmth and her impishness.
Word: Singling
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: Choose someone or something from a group for special treatment.
- Example: I couldn’t tell if you did that with everyone, or if you were singling me out.
Word: Machiavellian
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics
- Example: I’m either an incurable romantic or a bit Machiavellian.
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: 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.
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