Wordly Wise Book 6 3000 Lesson 1 Vocab

Front 1

alacrity

Back 1

n. 1. Prompness in Responding.
2. Eagerness

Hint 1

exp1: The seller of the car accepted my first offer with such aclacrity that I wish I had offered less.
exp2: At the beginning of recess, the children ran to the playground with such aclacrity.

Front 2

array

Back 2

n. 1. A large group of people or things.
2. An orderly arrangement or display.
v. 1. To place in order.
2. To dress up.

Hint 2

n.exp1: The ship's cabin contained an array of charts and maps.
n.exp2: The array of delectable sweets on the dessert tray tempted the diners.
v.exp1: The marching band was arrayed at the entrance to the stadium for the Thanksgiving game.
v.exp2: The guests had arrayed themselves in elaborate attire for the Viennese ball.

Front 3

deduce

Back 3

v. To draw a conclusion from given facts.

Hint 3

exp:Your carrying an umbrella leads me to deduce that you expect it to rain.

Front 4

encumber
another form of the word encumber: encumbrance (no definition but example)

Back 4

v. 1. To weigh down or burden.
2. To impede the action of.

Hint 4

v.exp1: I stumbled through the door encumbered by two heavy suitcases.
2: Large sheets of ice encumbered the ships.
n.exp: The debt was an encumbrance to the young couple as they saved money to buy their first house.

Front 5

fraught

Back 5

adj. Full of or accompanied by (usu. followed by with).

Hint 5

exp: We abandoned the idea of the trip when we learned it would be fraught with danger

Front 6

haphazard

Back 6

adj. marked by lack of plan, organization, or direction.

Hint 6

exp: He described his humorous haphazard trip to Europe.

Front 7

inconrovertible

Back 7

adj. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable.

Hint 7

exp: the fact that solar powered energy is sucked up from the sun is incontrovertible.

Front 8

inexplicable

Back 8

adj. Hard to explain or impossible to understand.

Hint 8

exp: The dissappearance of ships that traveled through the Bermuda Triangle is inexplicable to me.

Front 9

ingenious

form of ingenious: ingenuity (no definition but exp.)

Back 9

adj. Marked by imagination, resourcefulness or clevernous.

Hint 9

adj. exp: Convertion garbage into energy is an ingenious idea!
n. exp: After getting straight A's in all her classes the child's ingenuity was immediately known to her parents.

Front 10

laggard

Back 10

n. One who moves behind others because of moving slowly or loitering; a straggler.

adj.(no definition)

Hint 10

n. exp: The laggards were way behind the others.
adj. exp: We have laggard in getting the roof repaired.

Front 11

sustenance

Back 11

n. Something that provides nourishment; food needed to live.

Hint 11

exp: Roots and berries were sustenance for the sailors after they abandoned their ship.

Front 12

torrid

Back 12

adj1. Intensely hot or dry.
adj2. Burning with passion.

Hint 12

adj. exp1: It's impossible to be barefood on torrid desert sand without burning your feet.
adj. exp2: The letter was filled with torrid declarations of love.

Front 13

traverse

Back 13

v. to pass over, across, or through.

Hint 13

exp: He sweatingly traversed the bridge.

Front 14

ubiquitous

Back 14

adj. Appearing to be present in large numbers or many different places.

Hint 14

exp: Tourists with cameras are more ubiquitous every summer.

Front 15

zenith

Back 15

n1. The highest point; the peak.
n2. The point in the sky directly above the observer.

Hint 15

n1.exp: Winning the Nobel Prize for some writers, the zenith of their career.
n2.exp: The comet we saw in the sky appeared to be midway between the horizon and the zenith.