E2 LINCS #1
(v.) Engender: to cause to exist
(v.) Vitiate: to reduce the quality or make impure
(v.) Pacify: to calm someone down
(n.) Dearth: a scarce supply; lack of something
(adj.) Indolent: habitually lazy
(adj.) Marred: damaged or bruised
E2 LINCS #2
(adj.) Supercilious: feeling or showing haughty disdain
(v.) Squander: to spend wastefully
(adj.) Ardent: passionate
(v.) Beset: to harass persistently
(n.) Countenance: the expression on the face; face
(adj.) Cursory: performed with haste; hasty
E2 LINCS #3
(n.) Charisma: personal quality that shows enthusiasm
(adj.) Indigenous: innate; native
(n.) Labyrinth: A difficult maze of connecting passages
(v.) Exacerbate: to increase the severity; make worse
(v.) Incense: to make very angry
(v.) Daunt: to discourage; make fearful
E2 LINCS #4
(adj.) Rudimentary: basic
(adj.) Credulous: eager to believe; gullible
(adj.) Lucid: easy to understand
(adj.) Sacrosanct: sacred
(adj.) Docile: ready and willing to be taught
(adj.) Impartial: not biased; fair
E2 LINCS #5
(n.) Precedent: earlier example that helps in similar cases
(v.) Reiterate: to say again
(adj.) Prudent: careful/wise
(n.) Negligence: carelessness
(v.) Inoculate: to immunize by giving a shot
(adj.) Lax: careless; not diligent
E2 LINCS #6
(v.) Precipitate: to cause to happen suddenly
(v.) Equivocate: to say confusing words or ideas
(adj.) Assiduous: diligent; hard-working
(n.) Aptitude: natural ability, talent
(adj.) Circumspect: prudent; cautious
(n.) Metamorphosis: magical change in form
E2 Lincs #7
(n.) Nepotism: favoritism for hiring relatives
(adj.) Solicitous: eager and attentive
(adj.) Inclement: bad, as in stormy weather
(adj.) Obscure: ambiguous or vague/hard to understand
(n.) Jeopardy: peril or danger
(adj.) Diverse: differing from one another
E2 Lincs #8
(n.) Stratum: a horizontal layer
(n.) Anarchy: lawlessness
(adj.) elusive: difficult to define
(adj.) taciturn: naturally untalkative
(adj.) quantitative: having to do with quantity, amount
(v.) relegate: banish
E2 Lincs #9
(v.) appropriate: take without permission
(adj.) concurrent: parallel
(n.) complicity: participation in wrongdoing
(n.) lampoon: a broad satire that attacks a person, group, or institution
(adj.) Agile: able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally
(v.) Bestrew: to sprinkle or cover with things
E2 Lincs #10
(v.) Coincide: to correspond
(v.) Depreciate: to lessen the value of
(v.) Exonerate: to free from accusation or blame
(adj.) Fastidious: hard to please
(n.) Gumption: common sense
n.) Hiatus: a long break that is necessary
E2 LINCS #11
(v.) Immerse: to plunge or dip entirely under water/fluid
(adj.) Jovial: merry
(v.) Knead: to mix with the hands
(adj.) Lethargic: sluggish or slow
(adj.) Mediocre: ordinary
(n.) Novice: a beginner
E2 Lincs #12
(adj.) Obsolete: no longer used or accepted
(v.) Prevaricate: to lie/deceive with words
(n.) Abhorrence: the act of extremely detesting
(adj.) Aboriginal: primitive; unsophisticated
(v.) Acclaim: to shout with conviction
(v) Accost: to confront someone boldly
E2 LINCS #13
(adj.) Acrimonious: full of bitterness
(adj.) Acute: sharp, piercing, discerning
(n.) Advent: the arrival of any important person or event
(adj.) Affable: easy to approach, friendly
(v.) Agglomerate: To pile or heap together
(n.) Alacrity: cheerful willingness
E2 LINCS #14
(v.) Alleviate: to ease a burden or pain
(adj.) Altruistic: being benevolent or giving to others
(v.) Amalgamate: To blend together to make a homogenous mixture
(n.) Animosity: Hatred
(adj.) Antiquated: old-fashioned
(n.) Aristocracy: An inherited nobility
E2 LINCS #15
(n.) Pinnacle: the highest point
(n.) Quandary: a puzzling situation
(adj.) Querulous: habitually complaining
(n.) Rancor: bitter hatred
(adj.) Ravenous: extremely hungry, starving
(v.) Recede: to move back or away from
E2 LINCS #16
(n.) Recluse: one who lives in seclusion
(v.) Rectify: to correct
(v.) Regress: to return to a former condition
(v.) Remunerate: to pay for
(v.) Repudiate: to refuse to have anything to do with
(adj.) Repugnant: offensive to taste and feeling
E2 LINCS #17
(v.) Revere: to regard with respect
(n.) Rhetoric: the art of discourse
(adj.) Sacrilegious: impious, not sacred
(adj.) Sagacious: wise
(adj.) Salutary: beneficial
(adj.) Scrupulous: carefully acting for fear of doing wrong
E2 LINCS #18
(adj.) Senile: mentally old and weak
(adj.) Simultaneous: done at the same time
(adj.) Sinister: evil
(n.) Solace: comfort and peace
(v.) Speculate: guess, infer
(adj.) Spontaneous: acting without thinking first
E2 LINCS #19
(v.) Stifle: to smother
(adj.) Stringent: rigid, strict
(v.) Subjugate: to conquer
(adj.) Succinct: concise/brief
(adj.) Superfluous: too much, extra
(v.) Surmise: to conjecture/speculate
E2 LINCS #20
(adj.) Taut: stretched tight
(adj.) Torrid: excessively hot
(n.) Transient: one who is homeless
(adj.) Trite: made commonplace or dull by overuse
(adj.) Truculent: having an untamed spirit
(adj.) Ungainly: clumsy