Vocab List #1

Accoutrement

-an identifying and often superficial characteristic or device

Accretion

the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup

Barrage

-a vigorous or rapid outpouring or projection of many things at once

Bastion

a fortified area or position

Congeal

-to change from a fluid to a solid state; to make viscid or curdled

Conscript

-to enroll into service by compulsion

Discursiveness

-moving from topic to topic without order

Disenfranchise

-to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity

Expediency

-a means of achieving a particular end

Expiate

-to extinguish the guilt incurred by or make amends for

Explicate

-to develop the implications of; analyze logically

Heterodox

-holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines

Hidebound

-having an inflexible or ultraconservative character

Irrefragable

impossible to refute, break, or alter

Irreproachable

-blameless, impeccable

Misogynist

-one who hates women

Perceptive

-characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight

Quantify

-to determine, express, or measure the quantity of

Quantitative

- of, relating to, or involving the measurement of quantity or amount

Torpor

-a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility