Spring Vocab #5

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

•  cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

•  demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

•  deference: Humble submission and respect.

•  enigmatic:  Difficult to interpret or understand

•  definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or 

specify precisely

•  bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

•  choleric: bad-tempered

•  bulwark:  solid wall-like structure raised for defense 

•  curtail: To cut short or reduce

•  adamant: extremely hard substance

•  profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

•  mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

•  thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

•  onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

•  requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

•  mollify: Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

•  sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

•  presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

•  impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

•  forbearance:  refraining from the enforcement of something

•  remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting