Advanced Vocabulary List 12
- fickle
- (adjective) changing frequently
Kids are sometimes very fickle and may have a new favorite food every week.
- lucrative
- (adjective) producing a great deal of profit
Max told me that ESL was a very lucrative field, and I believed him.
- moot
- (adjective) subject to debate, unsettled.
Whether the tooth fairy is male or female is a moot point. No one knows.
- opulence
- (noun) wealth and luxury
Nina would not marry Charlie, for he had no money, and she was not willing to settle for anything less than a life of opulence.
- spry
- (adjective) active; lively
Max was amazingly spry for an old man.
- tentative
- (adjective) not certain or fixed
Our summer plans are still tentative. I think we are going to go camping in the mountains.
- wary
- (adjective) cautious; leery
The children were very wary of the stranger and would not let him into the house.