Vocab Enrichment #1

Myriad
Noun and Adjective
Definition: a countless or extremely great number.
"I had to leave my apartment due to myriad bed bugs."

Innocuous
Adjective
Definition: not harmful or offensive.
"The teacher took my innocuous feedback better than I expected."

Feign
Verb
Definition: pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
"The football player feigned an injury so he could leave"

Temerity
Noun
Definition: excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.
"Everyone saw the temerity back the way she carried herself."

Affront
Noun and Verb 
Definition: an action or remark that causes outrage or offense.
"Her affront made the members of the board worried."

Acquiesce
Verb
Definition: accept something reluctantly but without protest.
"Even though they were on the fence of hiring her, they still acquiesced her with the job position."

Interim
Noun and Adjective 
Definition: the intervening time.
"The interim delay made her anxious."

Trepidation
Noun
Definition: a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.
"By the look of her face, I could tell she was in trepidation."

Alleviate
Verb 
Definition: make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.
"The woman knew she could only alleviate her pain."

Stagnant
Adjective
Definition: Showing no activity; dull and sluggish.
"The progress of Joe's attitude changing was stagnant."

Elicit
Verb 
Definition: evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
"Her elicit questions made me second guess our friendship."

Exacerbate
Verb 
Definition: make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
"He keeps making the problem more exacerbate."

Tumultuous
Adjective 
Definition: Making a loud, confused voice; uproarious
"The audience was tumultuous all night long."

Bolster
Verb 
Definition: support or strengthen; prop up.
"My confidence used to be very low but it's bolstering more every day."

Cajole
Verb 
Definition: persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery.
"I'm trying to cajole in taking us to go get boba."

Clandestine
Adjective 
Definition: kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
"Our team is keeping our strategy clandestine."

Ameliorate
Verb 
Definition: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
"Her advice made her ameliorate problem better."

Cessation
Noun 
Definition: the fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.
"The cessation made everyone happy again."

Proliferation
Noun 
Definition: A rapid increase in numbers.
"The new town is proliferating by the minute."

Fervent
Adjective 
Definition: having or displaying a passionate intensity.
"Here fervent eyes made her work harder every day."

Ubiquitous
Adjective 
Definition: present, appearing, or found everywhere.
"Her ubiquitous attitude is making everyone feel loved again."

Sweltering
Adjective
Definition: Uncomfortably hot.
"The was sweltering and made everyone miserable."

Extraneous
Adjective
Definition: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
"The extraneous complaint made me roll my eyes." 

Recalcitrant
Adjective 
Definition: having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
"The kid was very recalcitrant at school."

Schadenfreude
Noun 
Definition: pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
"The people seemed schadenfreude due to them laughing at the man cleaning toilets for a punishment."

Malleable
Adjective
Definition: easily influenced; pliable.
"She is very malleable so please make sure she is focused on the plan."

Augment
Verb 
Definition: make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.
" She augmented her profits by adding tax."

Debauchery
Noun
Definition: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
"Her husband kept hiding her debauchery behavior."

Decadence
Noun
Definition: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
"The era was in a decadence."

Presumptive
Adjective
Definition: of the nature of a presumption; presumed in the absence of further information.
"She was very presumptive towards the new politician running for President."