Vocabulary List #5 2024-2025 Definitions

1. the attribution of humanlike characteristics in inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature

• anthropomorphism

• pejorative

• astute

• verisimilitude

1. based on random choice or person whim, rather than any reason or system

• arbitrary

• ironic

• meticulous

• staid

1. shrewd, clever

• astute

• replete

• buttress

• undermine

to increase the strength of or justification for; to reinforce

• buttress

• ironic

• arbitrary

• trepidation

intricate, complex

• convoluted

• harbinger

• corroborate

• imminent

1. to confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding)

• corroborate

• convoluted

• verisimilitude

• tenuous

1. conspicuously bad or offensive

• egregious

• arbitrary

• staid

• undermine

1. worn out through overuse, trite

• hackneyed

• harbinger

• astute

• meticulous

1. something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner

• harbinger

• pejorative

• ironic

• tenuous

1. about to happen

• imminent

• corroborate

• pejorative

• tenuous