| Cool thread! *You spelt definitions wrong. >_<
Anyway, I shall commence:
1. Defile – n. a narrow passage or gorge. Mountaineers have to make their way through a lot of defiles to reach their destinations.
2. Enmity – n. active mutual hatred or ill will. There is enmity between those two men; they once had a fight.
3. Hiatus – n. an interruption in time or continuity. The miners' strike caused a hiatus in coal production.
4. Immure – v. to enclose within. The general wanted to immure the prisoners of war.
5. Pliant – adj. suitable for varied uses. She doesn't like baseball but she's pliant and will play if everyone else wants to.
6. Specious – adj. something that seems to be true but is actually false. She was a good speaker but she did not do well on the debate team because most of her arguments were specious.
7. Stupendous – adj. of amazing size or greatness. We saw stupendous, snow-covered mountains in Switzerland.
8. Pallidly – adv. with lack of color or liveliness.
9. Ebullience – n. the quality of lively expression of thoughts and feelings.
10. Errant – adj. behaving wrongly, moving about aimlessly. While playing golf, he hit an errant shot into the woods.
11. Festoon – n./v. a decorative chain, to decorate. His house was festooned with Christmas lights and decorations.
12. Gesticulate – v. to gesture when speaking. The speaker gesticulated to stress the importance of the point.
13. Officious – adj. volunteering one’s services when they are neither asked nor needed. He is so officious that he tries to tell everyone what to do.
14. Tumult – n. a violent agitation of feelings. The tumult from the angry mob was frightening.
15. Contrite – adj. feeling/showing sorrow for a shortcoming. The boy was contrite after he broke his mother’s favorite lamp.
16. Declivity – n. downward slope.
17. Susurrate – v. to whisper/murmur.
18. Vicissitude – n. a change in one’s life that is beyond one’s control. You could say that losing your job is just one of the vicissitudes of life.
19. Furtive – adj. secretive. The teacher was suspicious of the student's furtive behavior during the exam.
20. Tacit/tacitly – adj./adv. to imply something without saying it. The boss gave tacit approval to a marketing plan by asking to be told about its progress.
21. Detritus – n. loose remnants, debris. The road was blocked by the detritus from a rock slide.
22. Gyration – n. the act of rotating in a circle. A line of male dancers gyrated to the music while the audience applauded their appreciation.
23. Impalpable – adj. incapable of being felt by touch/not readily discerned by the mind. The tiny bird's heartbeat was almost impalpable.
24. Malevolently – adv. having vicious ill will. I could feel him watching me malevolently as I walked away.
25. Myriad – n./adj. great number, innumerable, infinite. An accountant must take care of a myriad of details.
26. Sinewy – adj. strong, marked by strength. The fighter had a strong, sinewy body.
27. Grimaced – v. facial expression of disgust. Helen made a grimace of disgust when she saw the raw meat. |