TEAM VOCABULARY 1999

Ameliorate - make better
Arduous - difficult
Assiduous - hard working, tenacious
Ascian - one that has no shadow
Auspicious - associated with good outcome, promising, favorable, hopeful
Assuage - alleviate, lessen, soothe
Cacophony - a loud noise
Circumspect - careful
Complacent - self satisfied, indifferent
Camaraderie - friendship
Coprolite - fossilized poop
Disingenuous - insincere
Disparate - wide spread
Drupaceous - relating to a hard, one seedy fruit that is fleshy on the outside (e.g. cherry)
Ebullient - animated, excited
Enigma - mystery
Epiphany - a sudden revelation
Exacerbate - make worse
Felopapitity - fear of Friday the 13th
Formidable - overpowering, daunting, intimidating
Funambulist - rope walker
Germane - relevant
Gratuitous - not necessary
Gregarious - social, inclined to gather in groups
Halitosis - bad breath
Laconic - of few words, terse, succinct (ant. Loquacious)
Loquacious - talkative. Wordy, verbose (ant. Laconic)
Lethargic - sluggish, torpid
Heinous - horribly awful
Hegemony - rule from above with consent from below, or, preponderance of influence or authority
Hiatus - gap, break, pause
Inauspicious - associated with a bad outcome, unfavorable, portentous
Indifferent - apathetic (I don't care)
Ineffable - can't be reduced to words - too sacred to be spoken
Imperious - arrogant
Insatiable - can't be satisfied
Intrepid - fearless
Megalomaniac - someone obsessed with power
Mollify - to calm, soothe
Omni - (prefix) all
Omnipotent - all powerful
Omniscient - all knowing
Omnipresent - everywhere
Ominous - doomed, threatening, inauspicious
Penultimate - next to last
Perspicacious - keen, unusually astute
Placid - calm
Poignant - exceptionally moving, touching
Portend -predict, foretell, warn
Portent - omen, warning
Pugnacious - combative
Queechy - sickly
Rapacious - predatory, ravenous, greedy
Ravenous - extraordinarily hungry, insatiable
Respite - rest
Satiate - satisfy
Sanguine - hopefully, optimistic, confident
Serene - calm
Specious - an argument that sounds true but is really false
Sublime - incredibly wonderful, awesome
Tenacious - determined, not giving up
Torpor - sluggishness, lethargy
Ubiquitous - everywhere
Vivacious - lively

The Animal Kingdom
Bovine - cows
Canine - dogs
Equine - horses
Hystrecine - porcupines
Lupine - wolves
Porcine - pigs
Musteline - weasels
Ursine - bears

Apologies for missing/forgotten words