Impetuous = acting without thinking

Impulsive
Pundit = someone who speaks on a subject
Expert, specialist, guru
Paragon = someone who is great at something
Archetype, ideal, model
Fortitude = strength
Courage, bravery
Acrimony = negativity, bitterness or ill feeling
Anger, rancor, animosity-hostility
Enigmatically = mysteriously
Zealously = with excitement
Mundane = boring, commonplace
Cantankerous = grumpy
Irritable = cranky, mean
Facetious = silly, joking
Sardonic/sarcastic
Antonym=serious
Audacious = bold, amazing
Random = unpredictable
Anomalous, peculiar = out of the ordinary

Index card – word groups

Write down a word and its definition on one side and then the synonym and antonym on the
other side
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timorous – nervous [like timid]

malevolent – [mal = prefix for bad] wish to do harm
malicious,
antonym=benevolent
kind
propitious – promising/favorable
ubiquity – everywhere; common
diversity –
propinquity –
intractable – stubbornness
salubrious – [salu – salute = to health]
recalcitrant – stubbornness
conniving – [negative word]
calculating – [negative word]
unanticipated –
tepid –
elucidation – explanation; clarification
theoretical – based on ideas or speculation of a subject rather than observation or experience
[antonym = empirical – observation and experience
seasonal – by season or for a season
discrete – secrete/hidden
succinct – short and to the point
belligerent – hostile and aggressive
bellicose
riparian – situated on a banks of a river
estimable – worthy of esteem
florid –
salutary –
transitory –
ephemeral –
vacillation – sounds like oscillation – to waver
quiescence – syn: equilibrium, equal?
chaos –
aplomb – pride, self confidence
stasis – [homeostasis]
inculcation –
dispersing –
lauding –
rebuking –
acquainting –

word groups:
Criticize: aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, decry, defamation, denounce, disparage,
exocalte? rebuke, remonstrate, viturperate
Reduce: abridge, compendium, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
Generous/Kind: altruistic, beneficent, clement, largesse, magnanimous, munificent,
philanthropic
Easy to understand: articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid
Mal/Male: Bad, ill, evil, wrong: malefactor, malice, dismal

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Bellicose - war like, inclined to fight

Pugilistic - fighting with fists

Verbosity - wordy

Prolixity - long and wordy, unnecessary length

Vapidity - lacking life or flavor, flat

chicanery - trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

Subterfuge - a lie or artifice to evade a rule or consequence

Obsequious - servile, fawning (a suck-up)