Vocabulary Lessons 1-5 Review

unaffected by passion or feeling

• Persnickety

• Cupidity

• Stoic

• Paucity

fearful

• Tremulous

• Evocative

• Prosaic

• Indolent

 vaguely defined, cloudy

• Latent

• Nebulous

• Capricious

• Sheepish

the ability to think clearly and make good decisions; keenness and depth of perception or discernment especially in practical matters

• Nefarious

• Acumen

• Capricious

• Jocund

showing embarrassment from shame or self-consciousness

• Crestfallen

• Sycophant

• Asinine

• Sheepish

likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly 

• Sanguine

• Superfluous

• Capricious

• Mercurial

a person who flatters another in order to get ahead; a “suck up”

• Pedantic

• Sycophant

• Blithe

• Insidious

a false idea; a wrong belief

• Fallacy

• Quintessential

• Hackneyed

• Scrupulous

ordinary and/or dull

• Atrophy

• Listless

• Derision

• Prosaic

sounding sad; mournful sound

• Tacit

• Plaintive

• Nebulous

• Blatant