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Just Vocabulary
Newest Episode: Fri November 20, 2009. 10:10 AM
Just Vocabulary Podcast is for anyone who wants to improve their English Vocabulary (GRE, SAT, TOEFL). This ESL 4 minute podcast covers new interesting words. If your English is your Second Language, this podcast is for you!
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Wed April 23, 2008. 10:11 AM
LUGUBRIOUS = (adjective) very sad and depressed--mournful. looking or sounding sad and dismal.

Synonyms: sad, gloomy, mournful, melancholy, dismal, morose, dreary, funereal, somber

Antonyms: happy, lighthearted, joyous

- Marc was in a lugubrious state for weeks, after being dismissed from the university.

- I tried to lighten Marc's lugubrious mood with some cheery music.

- But his lugubrious heart felt like it would never feel joy again after his dismissal.

DAUNT = (verb) to frighten or intimidate

Synonyms: frighten, dismay, frustrate, discourage, subdue

Antonyms: hearten, arouse, encourage

- Lisa was not at all daunted by the size of the project.

- Eddy Murphy was undaunted by the lack of laughter and continued his stand-up routine with a smile on his face.

- The raging inferno didn't daunt the firefighters for a moment
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Tue April 22, 2008. 12:51 PM
ENCUMBER = (verb) 1. to burden or weigh down; 2. to impede, hamper, or hold back. restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.

Synonyms: burden, impede, hamper, hinder

Antonyms: help, speed, lighten

When you're climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the fewer encumbrances the better.

To encumber Frank with this additional problem may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

The monk's movements were encumbered by her heavy skirts

INCIPIENT = (adjective) in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop. In the beginning of development or formation.

Synonyms: developing, growing, emerging, nascent, initial, beginning, inchoate,

Antonyms: developed, finished, full-blown

- The system detects incipient problems early

Marc's ideas were still incipient and vague; he needed to work them out in more detail.

Democracy is incipient in this African country; give it some time to take hold.

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Mon April 21, 2008. 12:41 PM
RAMPART = a defensive fortification, specifically, a mound of earth topped by a wall

Synonyms: fortification, barrier, embankment, wall

Antonyms: opening, passage

The rampart surrounding the fort did not prevent the fort in the battle.

I got lost after wandering around the castle's old ramparts and towers.

TAWDRY = 1. gaudy and cheap in quality; 2. mean-spirited and lacking in human decency.

Synonyms: cheap, flashy, shameful, gaudy, glitzy,

Antonyms: reserved, precious, valuable

Examples:

Lisa's tawdry outfit was in bad taste for the occasion.

Joanne had a tawdry affair with her employer.

Lisa had tawdry rings she wore on her fingers
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Wed April 16, 2008. 03:19 PM
= UNFLAPPABLE =

DEFINITION:
(adjective) composed and able to remain calm when facing difficult situations. Having or showing calmness in a crisis.

SYNONYMS:
composed, calm, cool, collected, unflustered

ANTONYMS:
flustered, nervous, anxious, disturbed,

EXAMPLES:
1. I voted for him because I think he is an unflappable leader who will stay calm in this frenetic, high-pressure environment.
2. The witness remained unflappable during the FBI interrogation and he calmly answered the officer's barrage of questions.
3. Richard Dawkings is a great debater, because he is unflappable and he always takes his time to calmly answer the question.

= VERBOSE =

DEFINITION:
(adjective) using or expressed in more words than are needed

SYNONYMS:
wordy, loquacious, garrulous,

ANTONYMS:
succinct, laconic.

EXAMPLES:
1. Many first year students think that much academic language is obscure and verbose.
2. Try not to be so verbose when you're being interviewed.
3. The CEO had to plow through a verbose letter of complaint.
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Tue April 15, 2008. 03:27 AM
FLOUT = (verb) to show contempt or disregard for a law or convention by openly disobeying or defying it. Openly disregard (a rule, law or convention)

Synonyms: spurn, mock, deride, gibe,

Antonyms: obey, follow

The new intern flouted the company dress code by wearing torn jeans.

The brave opposition leader plans to flout the dictator's censorship laws.

PLATONIC = (adjective) 1. free from physical desire (as in love); 2. referring to Plato and his philosophies.

Synonyms: non-physical, intellectual, spiritual, non-lustful

Antonyms: amorous, sensual

Although Frank and Lisa spent a lot of time together, their relationship was only platonic.

Although it was strictly platonic, many other teachers couldn't accept Marc's close relationship with one of his female students.

More GRE, SAT and TOEFL words on our website. Click here
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Mon April 14, 2008. 05:01 AM
EMBEZZLE = (verb) to use or take entrusted money for personal gain. steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

His plan to embezzle money from the bank was unsuccessful.

Underestimation of the CEO led to the quiet employee's successful large-scale embezzlement of funds.

coalesce

verb

Definition: 1. to unite, fuse, or grow together; come together and form one mass or whole. 2. to form a group from different elements.

Synonyms: unite, fuse, consolidate.

Antonyms: divide, split, separate

At the end of each season, the best players from each NBA team coalesce to form the NBA All-Stars.

We need to coalesce our resources in order to provide a truly global solution on global warming.

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Mon April 14, 2008. 05:01 AM
EMBEZZLE = (verb) to use or take entrusted money for personal gain. steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

His plan to embezzle money from the bank was unsuccessful.

Underestimation of the CEO led to the quiet employee's successful large-scale embezzlement of funds.

COALESCE = (verb) 1. to unite, fuse, or grow together; come together and form one mass or whole. 2. to form a group from different elements.

Synonyms: unite, fuse, consolidate.

Antonyms: divide, split, separate

At the end of each season, the best players from each NBA team coalesce to form the NBA All-Stars.

We need to coalesce our resources in order to provide a truly global solution on global warming.

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Fri April 11, 2008. 02:27 PM
INGENUOUS = (adjective) 1. to be innocent and trusting, sometimes to the point of being foolish; 2. openly candid and sincere

It was very ingenuous of Marc to give out his personal information over the internet.

My daughter's ingenuous comment about religion made the priest laugh.

IMMURE = (verb) To enclose or confine (someone) against their will. To close or shut in by or as if by barriers. To put in or as if in prison

- The adventurer was immured by the frozen wastelands that surround them.

- Rapunzel was immured in her tower by her evil stepmother

- Lisa's brother was immured in a lunatic asylum.
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Thu April 10, 2008. 07:38 AM
PRUDISH = (adjective) overly concerned with being modest or proper. PRUDE = (noun) a person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.

- I don't think Lisa would enjoy Amsterdam's Red Light district; she's far too prudish.

On the other hand Lisa was prudish in high school, perhaps she changed over the years.

MALCONTENT = (noun) an unhappy and discontented individual, especially one who feels oppressed or is in open rebellion against his or her government; (adjective) dissatisfied or unhappy with something.

- The streets in every town in Zimbabwe are filled with malcontents carrying protest signs.

- Cathy was malcontent at her current job and was looking to find something better.
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Tue April 08, 2008. 11:19 AM
RECANT = 1. to renounce a, usually controversial, belief; 2. to take back a statement made earlier.

When Martin Luther espoused views that opposed the traditional beliefs of the Catholic Church, religious leaders asked him to recant.

Marc had to recant his statement when he found that many of the sources had been falsified.

The newspaper was forced to recant Marc's a published article.

QUIXOTIC = 1. extremely chivalrous; 2. motivated by idealism that is imaginative but not really practical; 3. having an idealistic or romanticized view of life.

Marc had a quixotic idea, but it was not completely far-fetched.

Frank was a quixotic man who always opened the door for women.

John's quixotic plan of the perfect way to propose to Elisabeth proved to be too difficult to execute.
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Tue April 08, 2008. 11:05 AM
CARICATURE = (verb and noun) 1. an extreme description or exaggeration of someone or something done for comic effect; 2. creation of such comic representations

A caricature can be created in drawing, writing, or even speech.

Marc's brother creates caricatures of popular political figures for the SAT and TOEFL magazine.

I am not caricaturing your brother!

There are many cartoonists who draw caricatures of tourists along the banks of the Seine in Paris.

JADED = (adjective)(1. dulled through repetition or excess; 2. no longer interested in something, often because of having been overexposed to it; 3. exhausted from overwork or overexposure; 4. hardened, insensitive, or dispassionate due to unpleasant experience.

- Looking for something to refresh his zest for life, the jaded CEO decided to sail around the world.

- The CEO's pessimistic speech left the employees jaded and depressed.

- Marc has been through so much hardship in his life that his views of religion are quite jaded.

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Sat April 05, 2008. 05:28 AM
DOGMA = (noun) 1. a religious doctrine; 2. a code of beliefs. A fixed, especially religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts

His political dogma paralleled that of the democratic party.

This company has always operated under the dogma that employees must be respected and compensated fairly.

CONCORD = (noun) 1. harmony and agreement occurring in attitudes and feelings between persons or things; 2. a treaty establishing mutual agreement and friendly relations between countries; (v.) 1. to be in agreement; 2. to go together

I can definitely concord on your point, but you should hear my ideas as well.

Sue and Sally work well in concord.
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Thu April 03, 2008. 02:55 AM
HARBINGER = (noun) a sign or indication of future events; (v) to foreshadow or announce something coming in the future.

- The turning of the leaves is a harbinger of winter.

- Their arguments were harbingers of more serious trouble in their marriage

INSTIGATE = (verb) to provoke, incite, or start something. to cause an event or situation to happen by making a set of actions or a formal process begin.

- The government will instigate new measures to combat terrorism.

- The revolt in the north is believed to have been instigated by a high-ranking general.
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Sun March 30, 2008. 04:51 PM
PANACHE = A dashing sense of style and self-confidence.

- Bill Clinton presents with a panache that immediately captures his audience's attention.

- Paris Hilton always throws parties that demonstrate her panache for entertaining.

MOLLIFY = 1. to calm or soothe somebody who is angry or upset; 2. to make something less intense or severe; 3. to make something less hard, rigid, or stiff.

- Marc is really upset; we need to think of how we can mollify his concerns.

- Marc practiced yoga after work to mollify his stress.

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Fri March 28, 2008. 05:44 PM
ABSTEMIOUS = marked by moderation and temperance in indulgence (especially with food and drink)

- My mother was an abstemious woman who disapproved of self-indulgence.

- In many abstemious cultures, people abstain from drinking any kind of alcohol.

RANCOR = strong, bitter feelings of resentment.

- Surprisingly, there was no rancor between the prosecution and defense attorneys once the trial ended.

- Lisa's rancor for her opponent was deep-seated and was fed by feelings of hostility.
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Tue March 25, 2008. 02:29 PM
TANGENT = (PHRASE) Go of a tangent means: a subject or activity that is different than the one you are talking about or doing. to suddenly start talking or thinking about a completely new subject.

Other meanings are: 1. A straight line that touches but does not intersect a curve. 2. Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side.

- It's hard to get a firm decision out of him - he's always going off at a tangent.

- We were talking about exercise and got off on a tangent.

ROTUND = 1. fat or round in shape; 2. full and rich sounding

- The rotund man was asked to play Santa Claus at the holiday party each year.

- Pavarotti usually has a rotund singing voice, but his last concert was a little flat.
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Sun March 23, 2008. 05:22 AM
GLOAT = to be smug or self-satisfied or to gain satisfaction from success, good fortune, or the failings of others

Please don't gloat over your victory; it's very unbecoming.

Every time Marc wins an argument, he gloats for hours.

RHETORIC =
1. speech or writing used to influence or persuade; 2. complex or elaborate language that sounds pretentious; 3. empty and pointless talk

- The Ministers' big plans are just rhetoric, if not followed by implementation.

- The presentation of the party was typical political rhetoric: a lot of proposed programs, without any accountability.

- Do you really want an answer, or was that a rhetorical question?

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Tue March 18, 2008. 03:50 AM
REVILE= 1. to attack somebody verbally; 2. to use abusive language.

- The judge was reviled in the newspapers for his opinions on rape.

- Works of art are often reviled when they are first produced.

- Jack's mistake wasn't so awful that you should revile him publicly.

CAVALIER= showing careless disregard and disrespect for something or somebody.

- a cavalier attitude toward public health concerns

- Mark's cavalier attitude has made him very unpopular around the office.

- The executive teamâs cavalier approach to spending, quickly dried up the companyâs cash reserve.
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