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English Honors 2011
vocabulary for EHS english honors program on a week by week basis
Definition | Term |
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Temporary inactivity or suspension, cessation | abeyance |
To credit, assign, or attribute | ascribe |
A close relationship, blood relationship | consanguinity |
To stop doing something | desist |
To throw out, ban, to evict | eject |
Vanishing, fleeting, lasting for only a moment | evangescent |
To pound in, to teach by repetition, to implant by repeated statement or admonition | inculcate |
Formal or elaborate praise | panegyric |
Presenting favorable conditions | propitious |
Repetitive | redundant |
Cheerful and optimistic | sanguine |
Secret, stealthy, sneaky | surreptitious |
A person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal Pleasures of life. Rigorously abstinent. | ascetic |
Pertaining to marriage | conjugal |
To dry out or to make dried out | desiccate |
Lacking in vigor and energy, degenerate or decadent | effete |
Agreeable sound | euphony |
The amount by which something increases by | increment |
Possessing or exhibiting great wealth or characterized by rich abundance | opulent |
Make favorably inclined, to appease | propritiate |
To give or feel in return | reciprocate |
Good for your health | salutary |
To allow to retire because of age or experience, to get rid of because it is out or date | superannuate |
Protection, support, sponsorship | aegis |
Changeable, erratic, governed by whim | capricious |
Believable | credible |
Inequality or difference | disparity |
Hugeness, atrociousness, horrible | enormity |
By luck, random chance | fortuitous |
Non-professional people. People outside of a particular occupation, non priest | laity |
A direct vote by the voters | plebiscite |
A play on words, a joke, to play on words | pun |
Leftovers, money paid annually, left over | residual |
Having or producing a full, deep, and rich sound | sonorous |
Open to bribery, willing to sell your influence, mercenary | venal |