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This resource provides concise definitions for a selection of essential vocabulary terms, including "Aberration," "Apportion," "Blithe," and more. Each term is explained with clarity, focusing on nuances and applications in varied contexts. Ideal for students, educators, and anyone looking to enhance their language skills, this guide serves as a quick reference for understanding complex words and concepts. From moral lapses to the nature of culture, master these terms to elevate your discourse and comprehension.
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CP12 Vocabulary 14 Tested Definitions
Aberration • Abnormal behavior; moral or mental lapse • Apportion • Share out; assign as share • Blithe • Cheerful, happy; careless, casual • Coalesce • Come together and form a whole • Connive • Disregard or tacitly consent to wrongdoing; conspire
Discursive • Tending to digress; rambling • Eclectic • Selecting ideas, styles, etc. from various sources • Facile • Easily achieved but of little value; glib, fluent • Forswear • Renounce • Heresy • Religious belief or practice contrary to orthodox doctrine; nonconforming opinion
Incendiary • (of a bomb) designed to cause fires; inflammatory • Intransient • Remaining; permanent • Larceny • Theft of personal property • Martyr • Person who suffers or is put to death for a cause or belief • Noxious • Harmful; unwholesome
Ostensible • Apparent; professed • Philistine • Person hostile or indifferent to culture • Protégé • Person under the protection, tutelage, etc. of another • Reprobate • Unprincipled or immoral person • Temporal • Worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular; of time