Contest Vocab List
Make a video illustrating the meaning of one of the words listed below. You may only submit one video per word but you may submit videos for as many different words as you would like.
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Accolade: an award or honor
Acumen: keen insight; shrewdness
Aloof: feeling at a distance; apart
Antithesis: the direct opposite
Arcane: known or understood by very few; mysterious
Artful: slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful
Avow: to say frankly or openly
Bewilder: to confuse or puzzle; perplex
Boon: something to be thankful for; blessing; benefit
Castigate: to criticize or reprimand severely
Chastise: to criticize severely
Chide: to express disapproval of; scold
Coalesce: to grow together; to unite into a whole
Connoisseur: an expert
Consummate: to bring to perfection; fulfill
Cosmopolitan: worldly
Culpable: deserving blame; guilty
Defame: to disgrace; bring dishonor upon
Didactic: intended for instruction
Disavow: to deny responsibility for; disown
Disinterested: unbiased; not influenced by selfish motives
Engender: to produce, cause, or give rise to
Extenuate: to make less serious
Facetious: joking often inappropriately; not meant to be taken seriously
Fitful: recurring irregularly; erratic
Remiss: careless or slow in performing one's duty
Rustic: rural; simple or unsophisticated
Salutary: promoting health; producing a beneficial effect
Scintillate: to emit sparks; to sparkle
Sinister: threatening evil or trouble; wicked
Soporific: causing sleep
Spartan: brave, undaunted
Static: showing little or no change
Stymie: to stand in the way of
Sullen: silent or repressed
Sumptuous: extremely rich or magnificent
Surrogate: a person appointed to act for another; substitute
Sycophant: one who tries to win favor by flattery
Tenuous: lacking a sound basis; weak
Transcend: to rise above; exceed
Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere
Vacuous: empty; stupid
Virulent: extremely poisonous; deadly
Vitriolic: extremely harsh; scathing
Wistful: characterized by sad longing; yearning
Credence: belief as to the truth of something; credibility
Depravity: Moral corruption; wickedness
Dissuade: to advise against something
Egregious: extraordinary in a bad way; blatant
Fastidious: excessively critical or demanding; hard to please
Flippant: lacking proper respect or seriousness
Furtive: done by stealthy means; sly
Headstrong: determined to have one's own way; stubborn
Inane: lacking sense; silly
Ineffable: incapable of being expressed or described in words
Insidious: intended to entrap; stealthily treacherous or deceitful
Iridescent: displaying brilliant colors; shimmering
Lackadaisical: without interest, vigor, or determination; lazy
Licentious: immoral
Lurid: gruesome; horrible
Maverick: an independent individual who does not go along with a group
Modicum: a small portion; limited quantity
Multifarious: having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.; diverse
Myriad: a very great number
Nefarious: extremely wicked or villainous
Obsequious: showing excessive or exaggerated respect or obedience
Ostensible: pretended; apparent
Pedestrian: commonplace; unimaginative
Permeate: to penetrate
Phlegmatic: unemotional; sluggish
Polemical: involving argument or controversy
Presumptuous: overstepping bounds; bold
Protract: to draw out or lengthen; prolong
Rarefied: belonging to an exclusive group; select
Raze: to tear down
Fetter: to confine; restrain
Fortuitous: happening by chance, accidental; lucky
Hedonism: the belief that pleasure is the highest good
Impoverished: reduced to poverty; deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness
Indolent: lazy
Insuperable: incapable of being passed over; impossible to overcome
Irascible: easily provoked to anger; very irritable
Parsimony: stinginess; being careful with money
Pensive: deeply thoughtful
Perfunctory: done routinely and with little interest or care
Pique: to excite or provoke; arouse
Ponderous: heavy; massive
Proclivity: a natural inclination or tendency
Quandary: a state of uncertainty; dilemma
Quixotic: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; impractical
Reprove: to gently scold or correct
Resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid
Sacrosanct: extremely sacred or holy
Sanctimony: pretended or hypocritical religious devotion
Strident: making or having a harsh sound; piercing
Succumb: to give way to superior force; yield
Taciturn: inclined to silence; saying very little
Trepidation: A state of alarm or dread; apprehension
Truncate: to cut short
Upbraid: to criticize severely; find fault with
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