Vocab U4

Question 1

Chagrin

Answer 1

— verb and noun
N: disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
- Mulan is extremely chagrined when she realizes that she can’t bring honor to her family when she fails her meeting with the matchmaker.
V: to vex or unsettle by disappointing or humiliating
- In the many high school movies from the nineties the “nerd” is often chagrined by the “jock” in a not so very funny way.

Question 2

Delineate

Answer 2

— verb
- to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail
- to indicate or represent by drawn or painted lines; to mark the outline of
- I sometimes envy my brother’s memory because he can delineate almost any memory he has when I can barely remember if I have chemistry homework or not.
- My friend always tries to delineate when telling a story to make it feel like I was there with her, which is why I love listening and watching her tell a story.

Question 3

Dilapidated

Answer 3

— adjective
- decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse
- The new books I buy never become dilapidated unless I buy them from a used bookstore or at a library book sale.

Question 4

Equanimity

Answer 4

— noun
- evenness of mind especially under stress
- right disposition : balance
- During finals last year right after completing all of my exams, equanimity took over even though I was extremely stressed about my grade.
- My brother has terrible equanimity and often trips and falls over his feet.

Question 5

Gratuitous

Answer 5

— adjective
- not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted
- given unearned or without recompense
- costing nothing : free
- My mom says that some of the chapters in her new book are gratuitous because she hates it when characters are as she says “sappy”.
- The soaps in many hotel bathrooms are gratuitous as are the small bottles of shampoo and conditioner.

Question 6

Kudos

Answer 6

— noun
- praise given for achievement
- fame and renown resulting from an act or achievement : prestige
- I give my friend kudos when she doesn’t look dead or fall asleep in class when she stayed up all night to finish the unreasonable amount of world history homework our teacher gives us without telling us about it.

Question 7

Ominous

Answer 7

— adjective
- being or exhibiting an omen : portentous
- especially : foreboding or foreshadowing evil : inauspicious
- In many movies ominous scenes include fog clogging the screen, eerie music filling the room, and the air becoming stuffed with tension.

Question 8

Recant

Answer 8

— verb
- to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce
- revoke
- Many YouTube influences often have to recant their actions so that they can continue to make money out of their content from views.

Question 9

Usurp

Answer 9

— verb
- to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right
- to take or make use of without right
- to take the place of by or as if by force : supplant
- During many peaceful protests in the 1950’s the police would usurp many innocent black people because of prejudice against them caused by centuries of oppression and racism.
- In the mid to late twentieth century, many females work in stem was usurped by many of their male cohorts because of the sex discrimination present then and now.

Question 10

Veneer

Answer 10

— noun and verb
N:a thin sheet of a material: such as:
- a layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to be glued to an inferior wood
- any of the thin layers bonded together to form plywood
- a plastic or porcelain coating bonded to the surface of a cosmetically imperfect tooth
- a protective or ornamental facing (as of brick or stone)
- a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect : facade, gloss
- I find many bottled veneers in my grandfather’s woodshop because he used to be a carpenter and still does it as a hobby.
V: to overlay or plate (a surface, as of a common sort of wood) with a thin layer of finer wood for outer finish or decoration
- to cover over with a veneer
- especially : to conceal (something, such as a defect of character) under a superficial and deceptive attractiveness
- I often veneer a mistake in my drawings with some kind of metallic paint because metallic pulls your eye from the actual mistake and it gives me an excuse to use it.