English 3: Vocab List #5

logically connected; consistent; clearly expressed

• coherent

• assertion

• inexplicable

impossible to explain or understand

• assertion

• inexplicable

• anagram

impractically idealistic; marked by a romantic notion of noble or chivalric ideas and deeds

• quixotic

• fulminate

• noncommittal

the act of declaring something; a claim or declaration stated positively

• anagram

• assertion

• surmise

 a prod for driving cattle; anything that drives or urges; an irritating stimulus; to prod into action; to urge on

• coherent

• proboscis

• goad

 the long snout of an animal; a nose, especially a prominent one; a tubular organ

• proboscis

• goad

• quixotic

a word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of the letters

• inexplicable

• assertion

• anagram

to talk or argue violently and loudly; to denounce; to explode suddenly

• surmise

• goad

• fulminate

 not committing to any one position or course of action; not revealing one’s purpose or position

• noncommittal

• assertion

• coherent

 to guess or suppose; a guess based on little evidence 

• surmise

• assertion

• fulminate