Vocab Unit 6
accountable
Adj. Being answerable to a given superior
Adj. Responsible for some action, job or task
anecdote
N. An account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting
N. A lesson that can be derived from a story or experience
brazen
Adj. Bold, audacious, and without shame
Adj. Not disguised, plainly visible
circumspect
Adj. Not clearly visible or attracting attention
Adj. Having or showing shrewdness and good judgment
confidant
N. A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others
N. A person who provides guidance or mentorship to others
debase
V. To harm or ruin the reputation or dignity of
V. To decrease the value, character, or quality of
deride
V. To harshly mock or ridicule
egregious
Adj. Conspicuously or obviously bad or wrong
Adj. Overly excessive in amount or degree
engimatic
Adj. Difficult to interpret or understand
Adj. Having a strange, curious or mysterious nature
extraneous
Adj. Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with
Adj. Not essential or necessary for a given task or purpose
gimmick
N. A trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade
N. A strategy to promote a product or boost sales
hypocrisy
N. The claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, or virtues that one does not actually possess
inception
N. The creation or beginning of something
infirmity
N. A state of being weak or lacking physical strength
insatiable
Adj. Incapable of being satisfied or appeased
nominal
Adj. Significantly unimportant and deserving of little to no attention
phishing
N. Deceptive online practice involving spoofing to obtain valuable information
procrastinate
V. To delay taking action
V. To postpone or assign to a later time or date
resuscitate
V. To give new life to, or to restore to a healthy condition
V. To restore (someone) to a state of consciousness
susceptible
Adj. Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing