SA1 Preparations! : English - Vocabulary - 1100 words

Check it! Week 21 - Week 24 of 1100 WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW!

NOUNS

Ascetic – a person who practices self-denial
Disciple- Follower
Nirvana – Heavenly place/ utopia
Scion – Descendant
Appellation- A name
Prelude – Introduction
Decade – Ten years time
Gamut – Range
Mandate – Authoritative command
Pedagogue – Teacher
Phenomenon – Unusual occurrence
Anthropologist – A person who studies mankind’s customs
Artifact – Hand-made object
Bigot – One who is not tolerant of others’ ideas
Entreaty – Plea
Fetish – A magical object
Tradition – Long-standing practice

ADJECTIVES

Bona fide – Genuine
Desultory – Random, Indiscriminate
Fulsome – Excessive and insincere
Obsequious – Seeking favor; always asks for help
Chimerical – Imaginary
Connubial – Related to marriage
Plight – Predicament
Potential – Possible; Future something.
Recondite – Obscure; Hidden
Analogous – Similar; comparable
Compensatory – Serving to pay back
Heterogeneous – Dissimilar
Inordinate – Excessive
Introspective – Looking into one’s own feelings
Irascible – Irritable; Hot-tempered
Maladjusted – Disturbed
Mortality – Death
Neurotic – Having a nervous disorder
Perspicacious – Shrewd
Susceptible – Easily affected
Bizarre – Weird
Contemptuous – Looking down on someone or something
Imperative – Necessary
Imprudent – Unwise
Inanimate – Without life

CONDITIONS

Decadence – Decaying
Destitution – Extreme poverty
Lush – luxurious
Materialism – The concern over mundane possessions and neglect spirituality
Metamorphosis – Change
Opulence – Wealth and riches
Penance – Atonement for sins
Salvation – Deliverance from ruin
Supplication – Earnest Prayer
Covert – secret
Cumulative – Accumulated
Escalation – Intensification
Incapacitated – Disabled
Incompatibility – Lack of Harmony
Indifference – Lack of concern
Catastrophic – Disastrous
Absurd – Ridiculous
Inviolable – Protected
Originate – Begin
Prohibition – Forbidding of certain actions
Taboo – Forbidden
Tainted – Contaminated
Universal – Widespread
Vulnerable – able to be hurt

VERBS

Acknowledge - Admit
Indoctrinate – To teach certain principles
Nurture – Nourish
Ponder – To consider carefully
Cope – to be a match for
Delude – To fool
Demur – To object
Fabricate – To lie
Juxtapose – To put side by side by side
Palliate – Relieve without curing
Enunciate – To proclaim
Neutralize – counterattack
Perpetuate – Cause to continue
Abhor – Hate

* YOU have the right to CTRL+C - CTRL+V this for you reference because I'm so kind! *