Vocab.+lists+16-20

VOCAB LIST 16 solicit – to ask for; to seek preclude – to prevent; to make impossible; to shut out taciturn – untalkative by nature immutable – unchangeable; permanent levity – lightness; frivolity; lack of seriousness amiable – friendly jeopardy – danger

VOCAB LIST 17 respite – a rest; a period of relief stoic – indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, ETC. amity – friendship lethargy – sluggishness; laziness; drowsiness; indifference willful – deliberate; obstinate; insistent on having one’s own way verbose – wordy; overly talkative retract – to take back; to withdraw; to pull back

VOCAB LIST 18 ambiguous – unclear in meaning; confusing paucity – scarcity rescind – to repeal; to take back formally zealous – fervent; enthusiastically devoted to something meander – to wander slowly; like a winding river nullify – to make unimportant skeptical – doubting (opposite of gullible)

VOCAB LIST 19 dearth – a lack of; scarcity stanza – a section of a poem; a verse impartial – unbiased; neutral objective – without bias (as opposed to subjective) relevant – important; pertinent candid – honest; frank provincial – limited in outlook to one’s own small corner of the world; narrow

VOCAB LIST 20 superficial – on the surface only; shallow; not thorough augment – to add to; to increase; to make bigger laudable – worthy of praise extol – to praise heresy – an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs vacillate – to be indecisive; to waver back and forth alleviate – to lessen; to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable