Vocabulary Workshop - Level F - Unit 11

gauche

• lacking social experience or grace; awkward; rude; tactless

• to scatter widely; diffuse; spread information

• deserving of blame or correction

• primly out of date

discursive

• to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

• to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch,dessicate, singe

• passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic

• pass off something fake as something genuine

abstemious

• lacking social experience or grace; awkward; rude; tactless

• a group that is part of a larger one

• adj. - leaping, jumping, or spring forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous n. - a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward

• eating and drinking in moderation; restricted to the bare necessities

perceptive

• having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation

• an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

• passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic

• a belief different from accepted, usually religious, beliefs

specious

• support with additional evidence; make more certain or confirm

• deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit

• very destructive; harnful; deadly

• easily felt or perceived by the senses or the mind

florid

• elaborate, ornate, over-decorated

• eating and drinking in moderation; restricted to the bare necessities

• to fill to satisfaction (adj.) filled to satisfaction

• deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit

denizen

• elaborate, ornate, over-decorated

• a group that is prt of a larger one

• lacking social experience or grace; awkward; rude; tactless

• an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

palpable

• poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste

• eating and drinking in moderation; restricted to the bare necessities

• easily felt or perceived by the senses or the mind

• to scatter widely; diffuse; spread information

foist

• pass off something fake as something genuine

• deserving of blame or correction

• support with additional evidence; make more certain or confirm

• to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch,dessicate, singe

contingent

• adj. - leaping, jumping, or spring forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous n. - a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward

• conditional; depending on something else

• an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place

• elaborate, ornate, over-decorated