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Vocab 7 Words
Animosity: (n.) strong dislike; bitter hostility
Apathy: (n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
Apprehensive: (adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future
Commend: (v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of
Compatible: (adj.) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system
Condolence: (n.) an expression of sympathy
Consecrate: (v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose
Decrepit: (adj.) old and feeble; worn-out, ruined
Deride: (v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt
Ingenuous: (adj.) innocent, simple; frank, sincere
Multifarious: (adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse
Obsolete: (adj.) out-of-date, no longer in use
Omnivorous: (adj.) eating every kind of food; eagerly takin gin everything, having a wide variety of tastes
Parsimonious: (adj.) stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small
Quandary: (n.) a state of perplexity or doubt
Recalcitrant: (adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority
Reprisal: (n.) an injury done in return for injury
Revel: (v.) to take great pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebration
Stultify: (v.) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have dulling effect on
Suave: (adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses
Vocab 6 Words
Vocabulary 6
Allude: (v.) to refer to casually or indirectly
Clairvoyant: (adj). supernaturally perceptive; (n.) one who possesses extrasensory powers, seer
Conclusive: (adj.) serving to settle an issue; final
Disreputable: (adj.) not respectable, not esteemed
Endemic: (adj.) native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field
Exemplary: (adj.) worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model
Fathom: (v.) to understand, get to the bottom of; to determine the depth of; (n.) a measure of depth in water
Guile: (n.) treacherous cunning, deceit
Integrity: (n.) honesty, high moral standards; an unimpaired condition, completeness, soundness
Itinerary: (n.) a route of travel; a record of travel; a guidebook
Misconstrue: (v.) to interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
Obnoxious: (adj.) highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
Placate: (v.) to appease, sooth, pacify
Placid: (adj.) calm, peaceful
Potent: (adj.) powerful; highly effective
Pretext: (n.) a false reason, deceptive excuse
Protrude: (v.) to stick out, thrust forth
Reparation: (n.) a payment made for a wrong or an injury
Stark (adj.) harsh, unrelieved, desolate; (adv.) utterly
Superficial: (adj.) on or near the surface; concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface, shallow
Vocab 5 Quizlet
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Vocabulary 5
Allocate: (v.) to set apart or designate for a special purpose; to distribute
Ardent: (adj.): very enthusiastic, impassioned
Assiduous: (adj.) persistent, attentive, diligent
Brash: (adj.) prone to act in a hasty manner; impudent
Capricious: (adj.) subject to whims or passing fancies
Chastise: (v.) to inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severely
Copious: (adj.) abundant; plentiful; wordy; verbose
Deviate: (v.) to turn aside; to stray from a norm; (n.) one who departs from a norm; (adj.) differing from a norm, heterodox, unconventional
Emaciate (adj.) unnaturally thin
Exult: (v.) to rejoice greatly
Gnarled: (adj.) knotted, twisted, lumpy
Indemnity: (n.) a payment for damage or loss
Inkling: (n.) a hint; a vague notion
Limpid: (adj.) clear, transparent; readily understood
Omnipotent: (adj.) almighty, having unlimited power or authority
Palatable: (adj.) agreeable to the taste or one’s sensibilities; suitable for consumption
Poignant: (adj.) deeply affecting, touching; keep or sharp in taste or smell
Rancor: (n.) a bitter resentment or ill-will
Sophomoric: (adj.) immature and overconfident; conceited
Spontaneous: (adj.) arising naturally; not planned or engineered in advance
Vocab 3 Quizlet
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Synonyms: https://quizlet.com/_36hkpn
Vocab List 3
Lesson 3
Adversary: (n.) an enemy, opponent
Alienate: (v.) to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey
Artifice: (n.) a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery
Coerce: (v.) to compel, force
Craven: (adj.) cowardly; (n.) a coward
Culinary: (adj.) of or relating to the kitchen
Demise: (n.) a death, especially of a person in a lofty position
Exhilarate: (v.) to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to
Fallow: (adj.) plowed by not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; (n.) land left unseeded; (v.) to plow by not seed
Harass: (v.) to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks
Inclement: (adj.) stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action
Liquidate: (v.) to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate
Muse: (v.) to think about in a dreamy way, ponder
Negligible: (adj.) so unimportant that it can be disregarded
Perpetuate: (v.) to make permanent or long lasting
Precedent: (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
Punitive: (adj.) inflicting or aiming at punishment
Redress: (v.) to set right, remedy; (n) relief from wrong or injury
Sojourn: (n.) a temporary stay; (v.) to stay for a time
Urbane: (adj.) refined in manner or style, suave
Vocab 2 Review Links
Word/ Definition Flashcards: https://quizlet.com/_34rsom
Word/ Synonym Flashcards: https://quizlet.com/_34rv91
Vocab List 2
Lesson 2
Adroit: (adj.) skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind
Amicable: (adj.) peaceable, friendly
Averse: (adj.) having deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling
Belligerent: (adj.) giving to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive; (n.) one at war, one engaged in war
Benevolent: (adj.) kindly, charitable
Cursory: (adj.) hasty, not thorough
Duplicity: (n.) treachery, deceitfulness
Extol: (v.) to praise extravagantly
Feasible: (adj.) possible, able to be done
Grimace: (n.) a wry face, facial distortion; (v) to make a wry face
Holocaust: (n.) a large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering
Impervious: (adj.) not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance
Impetus: (n.) a moving force, impulse stimulus
Jeopardy: (n.) danger
Meticulous: (adj.) extremely careful; particular about details
Nostalgia: (n.) a longing for something past; homesickness
Quintessence: (n.) the purest essence or from of something; the most typical example
Retrogress: (v.) to move backward; to return to an earlier condition in the novel, the survivors of a nuclear explosion
Scrutinize: (v.) to examine closely
Tepid: (adj.) lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest
Vocab List 1
Lesson 1
Adulterate: (v) to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value
Ambidextrous: (adj) able to use both hands equally well; very skillful; deceitful, hypocritical
Augment: (v.) to make larger, increase
Bereft: (adj.) deprived of; mad unhappy through a loss
Deploy: (v.) to position or arrange; to utilize; to form up
Dour: (adj.) stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill-humored
Fortitude: (n) courage in facing difficulties
Gape: (v.) to stare with open mouth; to open the mouth wide; to open wide
Gibe (v.) to utter taunting words; (n.) an expression of scorn
Guise: (n.) an external appearance, cover, mask
Insidious: (adj.) intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous
Intimation: (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion
Opulent: (adj.) wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose
Pliable (adj.) easily bent, flexible; easily influenced
Reiterate (v.) to say again, repeat
Stolid: (adj) not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive
Tentative: (adj.): experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant
Unkempt: (adj.) not combed; untidy; not properly maintained; un polished, rude
Verbatim: (adj., adv.) word for word; exactly as written or spoken
Warily: (adv.) cautiously, with great care
Literary Analysis Video
Vocab 1 Worksheet
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