# Appointments Expert

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- CEFR: C2 (Proficient)
- Theme: Daily Life
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Appointments vocabulary for scheduling in formal and institutional language, including rigmarole, tardy, protracted and prorogue — words for delay,…

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## Word list

* **rigmarole**: A long, fussy process you have to go through for something simple. — “Booking a doctor's appointment here is such a **rigmarole**.”
* **dilatory** /ˈdɪləˌtɔri/: Slow to act, and causing delay through hesitation (formal). — “His **dilatory** replies kept pushing the meeting back.”
* **tardy** /ˈtɑrdi/: Arriving or happening after the expected or agreed time (formal). — “The report criticised her **tardy** arrival at client meetings.”
* **chivvy**: To keep telling someone to hurry up or to do something they are avoiding (informal, British). — “She had to **chivvy** the children into getting ready.”
* **unpunctual**: Regularly failing to arrive or do things at the arranged time (formal). — “Being **unpunctual** for client meetings damaged his reputation.”
* **dilly-dally**: To waste time when you should be getting on with something. — “There is no time to **dilly-dally** between the two appointments.”
* **in abeyance**: Not being dealt with for the time being. — “The whole referral was left **in abeyance** for two years.”
* **sine die**: With no date fixed for the next meeting. — “The hearing was adjourned **sine die** and never resumed.”
* **importune**: To ask someone for something repeatedly and annoyingly. — “He would **importune** the receptionist twice a day.”
* **propitious** /prəˈpɪʃəs/: Likely to lead to a good result. — “The timing was not **propitious** and everyone knew it.”
* **desultory** /ˈdɛsəlˌtɔri/: Done without much interest or plan. — “The correspondence became **desultory** after the second year.”
* **protracted** /proʊˈtræktɪd/: Lasting much longer than expected. — “A **protracted** wait of eleven months ended in a two-minute call.”
* **contingent** /kənˈtɪndʒənt/: Depending on something else happening first. — “The date is **contingent** on the results arriving in time.”
* **peremptory** /pərˈɛmptəri/: Expecting to be obeyed immediately and without question. — “A **peremptory** letter arrived demanding attendance on Monday.”
* **dovetail** /ˈdʌvˌteɪl/: To fit together neatly. — “The two schedules **dovetail** for exactly one week in June.”
* **hiatus** /haɪˈeɪtəs/: A pause during which nothing happens. — “There was a six-month **hiatus** before anyone wrote again.”
* **perennial** /pərˈɛniəl/: Happening again and again, year after year. — “Overbooking is a **perennial** complaint in that department.”
* **supersede** /ˌsupərˈsid/: To take the place of something older. — “The new booking system will **supersede** the paper diary.”
* **prorogue**: To end a session of a formal body without dissolving it. — “The committee agreed to **prorogue** until the autumn.”
* **sitting** /ˈsɪtɪŋ/: A period during which a formal body meets to do business. — “The last **sitting** before the recess ran until midnight.”
* **stand-in**: Someone who takes another person's place temporarily. — “A **stand-in** saw every patient that fortnight.”
* **in perpetuity**: For ever, with no end date. — “The arrangement was written to stand **in perpetuity**, which nobody had intended.”

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