Some Good Vocabulary

(written on April 6, 2020)

Bear Market vs. Bull Market: A bull thrusts its horns up into the air, while a bear swipes its paws downward. These actions are metaphors for the movement of a market. If the trend is up, it's a bull market. If the trend is down, it's a bear market.

Ominous: giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

Whimsical: acting or behaving in a capricious manner.

Cumulative: increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions.

Status quo: the existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues.

Satiate: satisfied to the full; satiated.

Extraneous: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.

Onus: used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility.

Nullify: make of no use or value; cancel out.

Ambiguous: unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.

Compunction: a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.

Forlorn: pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Unscrupulous: having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair.

Inviolable: never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored.

Go ill together: to be unfortunate for or unfavorable to.

Tenet: a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true especially : one held in common by members of an organization, movement, or profession.

Secular: denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.