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Vocabulary
12th Grade Unit 1 Vocabulary Words
Term | Definition |
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Adjunct | Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity. |
Bellwether | The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse;a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends. |
Caterwaul | To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel;(n.)a harsh or noisy cry; a racket. |
Chimerical | Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible. |
Effete | Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce;out-of-date. |
Fait accompli | An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact or action. |
Hidebound | Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in options or prejudices;stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative. |
Hierarchy | Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc. |
Liturgy | A religious service or rite; the form of a ritualor other act of public worship. |
Mirage | Something illusory, without a basis in reality; an illusion. |
Morass | A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand. |
Noisome | Offensive or disgusting;foul-smelling; harmful or injurious. |
Oblivious | Forgetful;unaware. |
Poltroon | A base coward. |
Proselyte | A convert; a disciple. |
Quasi | Resembling but not actually being;seemingly but not actually or completely. |
Raillery | Good-humored ridicule; teasing. |
Ribald | Irreverently mocking; obscene, or licentious coarse, vulgar, or lewd in language. |
Supine | Lying flat on one's back or lying face upward; sluggish or lethargic; apathetic. passive. |
Vignette | A short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. |