TOP 40 Test Quarter 4 (19-24) Review

Sopor (n)

sleep; drowsiness

Vigilante (n)

someone who takes law enforcement into his or her own hands

Quittance (n)

a repayment; compensation

Vigilant (adj)

on the alert; watchful

Languish (v)

to waste away

Requiem (n)

a song or religion service for the dead or lost

Glutton (n)

one who wants or takes too much (especially food or drink)

Palatable (adj)

acceptable, satisfactory

Gusto (n)

enthusiastic enjoyment

Avarice (n)

desire for wealth; greed

Sapient (adj)

having knowledge; wise

Bibulous (adj)

drunken

Stagnate (v)

to stop moving or growing; to become unhealthy because of lack of movement

Rancid (adj)

rotten; spoiled

Putrefy (v)

to rot; to decompose

Odoriferous (adj)

giving off an odor

Redolent (adj)

suggesting; carrying the hint of

Predestination (n)

the belief that one's fate has been determine in advance by a higher power

Auspicious (adj)

followed by favorable circumstances

Propitiate

(v) to soothe or satisfy; to appease

Consortium (n)

a group of companies or institutions

Consort (v)

to keep company; associate (n) a companion, especially a romantic one

Bacchanal (n)

a drunken party or celebration

Elegy (n)

a song or poem memorializing something or someone

Plaintive (adj)

sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness

Festoon (v)

to drape or adorn festively

Jocular (adj)

characterized by joking

Gestate (v)

to conceive and develop in the mind or body

Insufferable (adj)

impossible to bear; intolerable

Conferment (n)

the act of bestowing; a formal offer

Rapport (n)

a positive relationship

gesticulate (v)

to make gestures for emphasis

importune (v)

to urge or beg without end

congested (adj)

overly crowded; too tightly packed

periphery (n)

the outermost part or boundary

importunate (adj)

extremely demanding; insistent

preferential (adj)

the outermost part or boundary

fortuity (n)

chance or accident

olfactory (adj)

having to do with the sense of smell

stagnant (adj)

unhealthy because of lack of movement