Vocabulary Week 13

Congenial: agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial

surroundings.

Preclude: to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The
insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.

Apprehensive: uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for
the safety of the mountain climbers.

Elaborate: worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great
minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care.

Arrogant: making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly

assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official.

Elusive: eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define an
elusive concept.

Efface: to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.

Taciturn: inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.

Ameliorate: to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve;

meliorate.

Acquiesce: to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree;

consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.