New words learned from the AFOQT study guide

Some words gleaned from the AFOQT word analogies study guide.

temerity

blanch

senility
(first thought...that this is relate to senile)

craven

prodigality

ravenous
(eg: ravenous appetite)

minutae

loquaciousness

derelict
(I've heard the phrase dereliction of duty...but I don't know its exact definition.)

morose
(sad?)

intransigence

chicanery

didacticism
didactic
:

1 a : designed or intended to teach

b : intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment

• didactic poetry

2 : making moral observations

Slaves related human as well as animal trickster tales; they told Bible stories, explanatory tales, moralistic and didactic tales, supernatural tales and legends. —Lawrence W. Levine,  The Unpredictable Past,  1993

For two decades, many Americans, including some early advocates of the Vietnam intervention, have been relentlessly didactic, extracting cautionary lessons from Vietnam. —George F. Will,  Newsweek,  22 May 1989

—the trappings, one might say—of a didactic and resolutely pious Victorian sensibility in the service of an anarchic imagination. —Joyce Carol Oates,  The Profane Art,  1983

the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion

enervation

taciturn

garrulousness

assuage
(assuaging fear?)

paucity
synonym: scarcity

timorous

urbanity

relegate
(how is this related to the word delegate)

munificent

flout

dearth