TEAM VOCABULARY 1999

Affirm - assert, avow, state positively
Altruism - kindness, charity, generosity
Ameliorate - to make better
Ambivalent - being of two (conflicted) opinions
Ambiguous - vague, uncertain
Ambulatory - walking
Augment - to change (usually through addition)
Assuage - to soothe
Benign - not harmful
Circumspect - careful, cautious
Circumscribe - to draw a circle around
Clandestine - secretive
Conceit - 1) being unusually concerned with oneself or 2) an overused metaphor
Cryptic - coded
Daunting - frightening, intimidating
Ephemeral - not permanent
Epiphany - a sudden revelation
Expedite - to hurry up
Exacerbate - to make worse
Feckless - irresponsible
Fortitude - strength
Formidable - daunting, intimidating, impressive, difficult, challenging gregarious - highly social, organized in groups
Gratuitous - unnecessary
Imperious - arrogant
Ineffable - indescribable, not reducible to words, too sacred to be spoken
Integrity - perfection, holding to a moral code,
Loquacious - talkative, perhaps excessively so (as in Coach Keene)
Mendacious - given to untruthfulness
Mnemonic - a device to help memory
Mollify - to calm
Omnipotent - all powerful
Omniscient - all knowing
Oxymoron - slumber party/jumbo shrimp
Parsimonious - frugal
Paucity - insufficient quantity
Placid -calm
Plethora - overabundance )opposite of paucity) poignant -touching (adj)
Resolute - tenacious, determined
Respite - rest, relief
Sanguine - 1) confident 2) pertaining to blood
Sedentary - not moving, staying in one place
Serene - calm placid
Sororal - sisterly
Slipshod - sloppy (as in workmanship)
Tenacious - exceptionally determined, not giving up

prefixes; ambi - both
ambu - re: movement
omni - all

FRIDAY WORDS
Chutzpah - exceptional self-confidence, gall, nerve
Crepuscular - active at twilight
Defenestrate - to throw something out of a window
Hystricine - pertaining to porcupines: also bovine - cows, porcine - pigs and equine - horses.
Liminculous - dwelling in mud
Machiavellian - obsessed with power
Papillionaceous - butterfly shaped
Perspicacious - unusually keen or perceptive