Vocabulary #2

1. Accouterments: (noun) personal clothing, accessories.
- The soldiers wore the accouterments when they were out at battle.
2. Apogee: (noun) highest or most distant point; climax.
-In a story the apogee occurs when the most dramatic part happens and the story takes a turn.
3. Apropos: (adverb) fitting; at the right time; to the purpose; opportunely. appropriate to a specific situation.
- The mail comes apropos  as usual everyday.
4. Bicker:  (verb) argue about trivial and petty matters.
- The brother and sister bicker about who gets to watch their television show.
5. Coalesce: (verb) come together and form one whole or mass.
- Study groups coalesce the night before a huge exam.
6. Contretemps: (noun) an embarrassing, or unfortunate situation.
-When someone forgets their lines in a play there can be a bit of a contretemps. 
7. Convolution: (noun) a complication or intercity of form, design, or structure; coil, twist, twirl.
- The art sculpture has a convolution because it is modeled off the DNA molecule.
8. Cull: (verb) to select from a group; control the size of by removal of the weaker.
- To find the correct answer to the question I culled through various websites, until finding one that worked best.
9. Disparate: (adjective) containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incompatible elements.
- The two kings always acted disparate around each other because they had very different views on situations.
10. Dogmatic: (adjective) Characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts.
- When people get into arguments some people are very dogmatic and refuse to let go of their opinions.
11.Licentious: (adjective) lacking legal or moral restraints; especially disregarding sexual restraints.
- People who act licentious are often rude and no respected because of the way they act.
12. Mete: (verb) To distribute by or to give out by measure.
-The teacher mete out the papers so each student received 3 assignments.
13. Noxious: (adjective) physically harmful or destructive to living beings;  constituting a harmful influence on mind or behavior.
- A fire in a neighborhood can be noxious, because it can lead to many houses getting destroyed or injuries.
14. Polemic: (noun) an aggressive attack on, or refutation of the opinions or principles of another.
-During a debate the politicians use polemic words, and phrases to go against their opponents.
15. Populous: (adjective) densely populated, filled to capacity.
- Los Angles is a very populous city, it is also very diverse because of the amount of people that live there.
16. Probity: (noun) the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
- The man spoke with great probity, it was obvious he wanted what was right for the people.
17. Repartee: (noun) a quick and witty reply, clever retorts.
- When listening to the radio I noticed that the guest speaker answered with repartee, which isn't unusual for someone who wants to keep their image.
18. Supervene: (verb) to follow or result as an additional, or unlooked-for development.
- Smoking will lead to supervene lung cancer.
19. Truncate: (verb) to shorten something by the top or the end.
- I had to Truncate some of the cake because it didn't fit in the container.
20. Unimpeachable:  (adjective) not able to be doubted, questioned, or criticized; entirely trustworthy.
- When you are going to get married your husband should be unimpeachable, so you always know you can rely on him.