The third set of vocab words for Ms. Neely's class. If you click combine on the main page of the set you can combine it with the other two lists to study all of them at once.
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| 59136931 | auspices | Protection or support; patronage. A portent, omen, or augury, especially when based on the action of birds. | |
| 59136932 | auspicious | Attended by favorable circumstances. | |
| 59136933 | circumspect | Heedful of circumstances or consequences; prudent. | |
| 59136934 | despicable | Deserving of scorn or contempt; vile. | |
| 59136935 | introspective | Self-examining; thinking about one's own thoughts and feelings | |
| 59136936 | perspicuity | The quality of being clearly expressed or easily understood; the ability to perceive or understand keenly | |
| 59136937 | prospective | Likely to become or be; likely to happen; expected. | |
| 59136938 | specious | Having the ring of truth but actually false. | |
| 59136939 | specter | A phantom; apparition. A threatening or haunting possibility. | |
| 59136940 | spectrum | A broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities; a range of values of a quantity or of related quantities. | |
| 59136941 | acuity | Acuteness of perception; keenness. | |
| 59136942 | consummate | Supremely accomplished or skilled; complete or perfect in ever respect; complete, utter. | |
| 59136943 | cunning | noun: Skill or adeptness in performance; dexterity. Skill in deception, guile. adjective: Shrewd or crafty in manipulation or deception; executed with or exhibiting ingenuity | |
| 59136944 | deft | Skillful; adroit | |
| 59136945 | endowment | A natural gift or quality; funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income | |
| 59136946 | facile | Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy. Working, acting, or speaking effortlessly; fluent. Arrived at without due care, effort, or examination; superficial. | |
| 59136947 | incompetent | adjective: Not capable; not properly or well qualified. Not adequate for the purpose; not sufficient. noun: A person who is not capable or qualified for a particular task. | |
| 59136948 | inept | Awkward or clumsy; not suitable to the circumstances or occasion; inappropriate. Lacking in judgement, sense, or reason; foolish. | |
| 59136949 | proficient | Performing in a given art, skill, or branch of learning with expert correctness and facility; adept. | |
| 59136950 | propensity | An innate inclination; tendency. | |
| 59136951 | beseech | To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore. To request earnestly; beg for. | |
| 59136952 | blandishment | The act of coaxing by flattery or wheedling. | |
| 59136953 | cajole | To coax gently and persistently. | |
| 59136954 | elicit | To bring out, evoke; to call forth. | |
| 59136955 | enjoin | To direct with authority and emphasis; command. To prohibit or forbid. | |
| 59136956 | exigent | Requiring immediate attention or remedy; urgent. Requiring or demanding a great deal. | |
| 59136957 | imperious | Arrogantly domineering or overbearing. | |
| 59136958 | injunction | A command, directive, or order. A court order enjoining or prohibiting a party from a specific course of action. | |
| 59136959 | mendicant | noun: A beggar. adjective: Depending upon alms for a living; practicing begging. | |
| 59136960 | query | noun: A question; inquiry. A doubt in the mind. trans. verb: To express doubt or uncertainty about; question. To put a question to. |
