 Scrimping: Be thrifty; economize
Tracks – Vocabulary List
 Chalet: Cabin/house for tourists
 Calloused: (Part of body) wt. hardened
skin
 Recalcitrant: Very uncooperative attitude
to authority
 “Fit of pique”: Feeling of irritation due to
pride
 Ethnocentric: Evaluating cultures
according to your own cultural
perceptions
 Tacitly: Understood w/o openly
expressed/implied
 “Antipodean Machismo”: Australian/New
Zealander’s strong/aggressive, masculine,
pride
 Dishevelled: Untidy (hair, appearance)
 Masochist: Enjoys being hurt
 Sadist: Enjoys hurting
 Decrepit: Ruined/worn from age/neglect
 Contrite: Feeling remorse when you
realise your wrongdoings
 Eulogize: To praise highly in
speech/writing
 Inauspicious: Unpromising of success
 Tenuous: Very weak/slight
 Vicarious: experienced in the imagination
through the feelings or actions of another
person. "this catalogue brings vicarious
pleasure in luxury living"
 Anaemic: Weariness/pale (metaphorically,
or from blood loss)
 Enmity: State/feeling of
hostility/opposition
 Transmogrified: To transform in a
surprising/magical way
 Castigated: To reprimand severely
 Inveigle: Persuade to do something by
deception
 Nary: “Not”
 Lackadaisical: Lacking enthusiasm;
carelessly lazy
 Traipsed: Move wearily/reluctantly
 Amoral: Lacking morals; no care for
right/wrong
 Petulant: Childishly sulky/bad-tempered
 Toey: On edge
 Proverbial: Referred to in a
proverb/idiom; proverbial sore thumb
(sticks out like a sore thumb is the idiom)
 Tepid: Slightly warm (liquid)
 Dithered: Indecisive
 Ostentatious: Showy; designed to impress
 Bourgeois: Of middle class, esp. their
values/attitudes
 Intelligentsia: Group of intellects (esp.
political/cultural)
 Zeal: Great energy/enthusiasm pursuing a
goal
 Archetypal: Very typical of a thing
 Perspicacity: Having ready insight into
things
 Doldrum: Period of stagnation/depression
 Dowager: Widow; dignified old lady
 Indignant: Showing anger/annoyance at
seemingly unfair treatment
 Surreptitiously: Kept secret (due to fear of
disapproval)
 Austere: Severe/strict in manner/attitude
 Itinerant: Travelling all over; nomadic
 Untenable: Not able to be
maintained/defended from objection
 Antithetical: Mutually incompatible
 Incorrigible: Describes people not able to
be changed/reformed
 Chivvied: Repeatedly tell someone to do
something
 Respite: Short period of rest from a
difficult thing
 Abeyance: State of temporary suspension
 Trepidation: Feeling of fear about possible
thing
 Machining: Plotting/scheming
 Taint:
 Cajoling: Coaxing in order to persuade
 Stalwart: Loyal/reliable/hard-working
 Extraneous: Irrelevant to topic
 Envisaged: Conceive as a possibility in
future
 Poignancy: Quality of evoking keen
sadness/regret
 Burgeoning: To begin/grow rapidly
 Dilettante: One who cultivates an area of
interest w/o knowledge or commitment
(MUD PRINCESS...)
 Titter: Give a short, half-suppressed laugh
 Fastidiously: Very
particular/critical/demanding
 Hypochondriac: One abnormally anxious
about health
 Perennially: Resilient, lasting through time
 Incongruous: Out of proportion/balance;
unable to merge
 Sylvan: Very beautiful, lush
 Deferential: Recognising authority,
respect
 Cavorting: Sexual playfulness
 Cadence: Sound (musicality) quality; many
things perfectly in synchronicity
 Staunch: Strong; loyal
 Demarcation: Marking out an area
(political)
 Gesticulate: To make hand
gestures/movements; sub gestures
 Titchy: Tiny (colloquial)
 Singeing: Burning something
 Finickity: Fussy (colloquial)
 Voluble: Won’t shut up
 Nonchalantly: Casually/without concern
 Drab: Dull/boring
 Rapport: Connection/relationship
 Unselfconscious:
 Apoplectic: Angry/furious (white hot
anger)
 Curlicues: Architectural thing, a curl/twist
in calligraphy/design
 Abject: Extreme/maximal extent; abject
apology
 Poky: Uncomfortably small/cramped
(room); powerful (car)
 Impertinent: Rude
 Jujitsuing: Exploitation of one’s weakness,
or opponent’s strength, to accomplish
goals
 Salient: Most important
 Ephemeral: Lasting for short time;
transitory; transient
 Jocularity: Humour
 Doted: Love to extreme
 Churlish: Mean/angry
 “Laudable laingains”:
 Sonorous: Has deep, resonant
sound/fervor
 “Tinselly cow-girl”:
 Inebriate: To intoxicate
 Transgressions: Offences, crimes
 Coquettishly: In a teasing/light-hearted
manner acting flirtatiously (woman-only)
 Disconsolate: Sad AND Inconsolable
 Confluence: The process of merging
 Unmodulated: Not varied in
strength/tone (ONLY VOICE); not
regulated/controlled (GENERAL)
 Putrescent: Decaying/rotting; p. flesh
 Samphire: A native succulent
‘grass’/green
 Perfunctory: Descibes action carried out
without real interest/effort/feeling
 Furore: Uproar/commotion
 Sumptuous: Lavish/luxurious-looking
 Sordid: Corrupt/sleazy OR dirty/filthy
 Eke: Manage to live/survive with difficulty
day-to-day
 Tentative:
 Besparsed:
 Jalopy: Old car in dilapidated condition
 Ad nauseam: “He repeated a. n.”, done to
the point of annoyance/tiredness
 Dromedaries: Arabian camel; light and
swift breed
 Pleistocene: Relating to the Quaternary
period (LONG TIME AGO)
 (Had) pared: To have trimmed the outer
edges cutting
 Untrammelled: Not deprived of freedom
of action/expression
 Sarong: IMAGINE INDIAN “TUNIC”.
 Inane: Silly; nonsensical/senseless
 Boadecia of the beaches
 Lapse: Temporary lapse of concentration
 Klutziness: Unwieldy/bulky/awkward
 Similitude: State of being similar to  Endeavour:
something; similarity  Protracted (preparations): Lasting longer
 Inchoate: Rudimentary; infant, not fully than expected
formed/developed thing  Evocative:
 Subsumed: Absorb something in  Mania (euphoric):
something else  Enigmatic (desert):
 Verve: Vigour/spirit/enthusiasm  Gravitate (towards):
 Supplanted: Supersede and replace  Gumption (Robyn’s):
 Pertinent: Relevant/applicable to a matter  Precarious:
 Fervently: Enthusiastically/vehemently  Apprentice (herself):
 Presumptuous: Describes a person failing  Equilibrium (Robyn’s):
to observe the limits of appropriateness;  Retrospective
brazen/overconfident/forward  Volition
 Kilter: Out of harmony/balance  Visceral
TO DEFINE, ADD:  Emaciate
 Underscore
 Ascribes (camels human qualities):  Romanticise
 Fortitude:  Wanderer
 Symptomatic:  Nomadism
 Garrulous:  Moniker
 Splendour:  Anathema
 Adjunct (to a man):  Expulsion
 Fractious:  Seminal
 Solitude:  Mise en Scene: Arrangement of Props,
 Ostensibly: Appears/stated to be true (not scenery, surroundings
necessarily); apparently  Idyllic: halcyon
 Reconcile (Rick’s two sides):  Disproportionate
 Gruesome (trip):  Divest
 Insurmountable:  Diegetic: Sourced by objects, things in
 Recur: scene; cutlery sound, light of a car
 Unwavering (attitude):  Beset
 Slavish (Kurt):  Pantheistic: That something is God
 Privy: manifest
 Microcosm (pub):  Estrangement
 Afford (insights):  Regalia
 Euthanise:  Exuviate: Shed
 Hapless (new owner):
Important Synonyms
 Articulate:
 Interrogate (the accusation):  Journey: Odyssey, adventure, trip
 Intrusive:  Nature: Wild, wilderness, environment,
 Insensitive: landscape, snowscape, desert, outback,
 Rejuvenation: bush
 Demoralised:
Phrases:
 Accustomed:
 Denouement: Final part of novel/film, plot  Uncompromising wilderness
drawn together, matters resolved.
 Alaskan Snowscape
 Idyllic vistas
 Seminal writers
 First person authorial voice
 Sense of alienation
 Internal psychic landscape
 Mise en scene