<p>Sorry for the bump, but I really like this thread. And, I need to provide definitions for my list.</p>
<p>Temerity - Audacity
Ephemeral - Short-lived, fleeting
Potentiate - To increase in power
Obviate - To render unnecessary
Obdurate - Stubborn
Ameliorate - To make better (for lack of better terms)
Endow - To provide or furnish</p>
<p>Put all of your words in sentences in this thread</p>
<p>That way, we can become more familiar with these "favorite words" by seeing it in context.</p>
<p>indefatigable - tireless</p>
<p>jaxtaposition
approbation
capricious</p>
<p>ooooh i just learned the word approbation today!! to approve!!! easy to remember</p>
<p>Nonplussed - confused
Adamant- unyielding</p>
<p>floccinaucinihilipilification - </p>
<p>Look it up.</p>
<p>lackadaisical - listless
(easy way to memorize: when a hero lacks a daisy, he lacks strength)</p>
<p>vacuous - idiotic
(when one's brain is empty, he lacks intelligence)</p>
<p>anachronistic - referring to something from a period other than that in which it exists
(when a person heard that people in the past rode horses, he said, why not a car? it's faster.)</p>
<p>anyone know a good way to learn "fastidious"?
I keep forgetting what it means... I've looked it up like 10 times this month.. argh </p>
<p>and I keep getting confused between "insidious" "insipid" "insinuate"
blahh</p>
<p>incandescent: glowing, immensely bright, brilliant.</p>
<p>frumpish: dowdily dressed</p>
<p>Sorry, not very PC. I just like the sound of the word "frump"!</p>
<p>maudlin : excessively sentimental</p>
<p>use it on your girlfriend.</p>
<p>plasticity: ability to change</p>
<p>showed up on both SATs I took.</p>
<p>a bump and a couple simple ones</p>
<p>jocund - cheerful merry glad
eleemosynary - generous to the poor, charitable
harlequin - (n, adj) a joker, jester, buffon as a noun, overly colorful as an adj</p>
<p>Harlequin is the origin of the name of a certain character named Harley Quinn</p>