Vocabulary 1

Words from memrise:

• Acumen is the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions.
• Agonize over Sb/smth-spend time worrying and trying to make a decision about it
• Vocal-often expressing opinions and complaints in speech
• Vociferous people express their opinions and complaints loudly and repeatedly in speech, and vociferous demands, etc. are made repeatedly and loudly

Words from my pleasure reading book

• Crack up- to laugh or cause to laugh uproariously or uncontrollably
• blow off steam- to do or say something that helps you to get rid of strong feelings or energy
• take the liberty of doing sth- to do something that will have an effect on someone else, without asking their permission
• miss the forest for the trees -to not understand or appreciate a larger situation, problem, etc., because one is considering only a few parts of it
• be the bee’s knees(old-fashioned informal)-to be excellent or of an extremely high standard
• Cat’s pajamas informal + old-fashioned- a highly admired or exceptionally excellent person or thing

Words from vocabulary tests:

• opaque- preventing light from traveling through, and therefore not transparent or translucent
• Novice- a person who is not experienced in a job or situation
• Adduce evidence-give evidence
• Endemic- (esp. of a disease or social condition) found particularly in a specific area or group
• Adherence- the act of doing something according to a particular rule, standard, agreement, etc