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All Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Decorous | |
| Utopia | |
| Copulation | (v) participating in sexual intercourse When people are madly in love, they copulate. |
| Amiable | |
| Vile | |
| Lithe | |
| Pedants | (n) Someone who has book knowledge but common knowledge. 2. Overemphasizing over little things. My mom calls me a pedant because I don't use my common sense. |
| Puritanical | (n) Someone who is strict in religious matters The people of Omelas are not puritanical, because they do not believe in a religion. |
| Benign | (adj) Gracious, kind, merciful The benign girl helped the old man across the street. |
| Uncouth | (adj) Clumsy; ungracious; bad manners An uncouth person tends not to have respect for others. |
| Archaic | (adj) Old The archaic parchment tells a lot about the life in ancient Egypt. |
| Treason | (n) To overthrow one's government Some governments, in history, went through many treasons, causing their empire to end. |
| Languor | |
| Imperious | |
| Paradox | |
| Dulcet | |
| Banality | (n) Not having originality All of us have banality, because we are one of a kind. |
| Magnanimous | |
| Impotence | |
| Vapid | |
| Atrocious | (adj) Cruel, brutal or tasteless, dreadful Rape is an atrocious crime, because it is extremely cruel and unforgivable deed. |
| Meditate | (v)To engage in thought, or to relax oneself Some people mediate so they can think clearly. |
| Repose | (v) To assume a stance or attitude again Sarah reposed herself, when the photographer told her to. |
| Oratory | (n) Art of speaking. 2. Place of praying A good speaker can convince everyone in the crowd to believe with what he believes in because of this amazing oratory skills. |
| Ostentatious | (adj) Acts trying to attract notice or impress someone Bill Gates's ostentatious donation helped hungry people all over the US, no to show generosity, but to show how much money he has. |
| Congenial | (adj) Easy to get along with Congenial people are fun to talk with because they are well-rounded and fun to hang with. |
| Accord | (v/n)To be in agreement; harmony For a compromise to work, both parties must be in accord with it. |
| Venerable | (adj) Title of respect; impressive The venerable father, who was respected by everyone, died of old age. |
| Pathos | (n) Pity;suffering The author of "The Lottery" evokes pathos by making Mrs. Huttinchinson die in the end. |
| Profane | (adj) Unholy or vulgar We aren't allowed to use profanity in school, because it is unmannerly. |
| Throng | (n) A great number of things or people When One Direction was playing at GSP, a throng of girls gathered around them. |
| Derision | (n) Mockery When the students dressed up the statue of the founder of their school, it was considered not respectable and a derision. |
| Countenance | (n) Facial expression When the food arrived, her countenance changed immediately, because she was so glad the food was here. |
| Iniquity | (n)In justice; sin The iniquity of murder is unforgivable. |
| Sagacious | (adj) Smart, keen sense of smell The sagacious lawyer won the defendant's case in less than an hour. |
| Summons | (n) An authoritative call or notice to show up somewhere. One should not ignore a summons to go to court. |
| Variance | (n) Being different, or a difference To calculate a variance, subtract the two values. |
| Emblem | (n) A design or sign that represents something The olive branch is an emblem of peace. |
| Perturbation | (n) State of being disturbed Some people consider music a perturbation while studying. |
| Undulate | (v) To be wavy in form In the slight breeze, the flag undulates. |
| Imbued | (v) To be inspired Many politicians have been imbued by Martin Luther King Jr. and usually include him in their speeches. |
| Remonstrance | (n) Protest The builders of the new mall turned a deaf ear to the remonstrance of over 500 protesters. |
| Disposition | (n) Emotion, feeling about something, or placement The man was unsure of his disposition on the continuation of the war in Iraq. |
| Visage | (n)Appearance The visage of the ghostly creature scared the little child. |
| Impertinent | (adj) Rude The impertinent comment hurt the girl's feelings. |
| Mitigate | (v) To make less pain, severe, or force Instead of being grounded for a month, my parents mitigated my punishment to two weeks. |
| Censure | (n) Strong expression of disapproval. The colonists showed their censure of tea tax, by dumping the tea in Boston Harbor. |
| Vagaries | (n)An unpredictable action. Sometimes our vagaries to certain circumstances surprise us too. |
| Engulf | |
| Curdle | |
| Pantomime | |
| Glib | |
| Garrulous | |
| Tenancy | |
| Implore | |
| Convalesce | |
| Exasperate | |
| Gregarious | |
| Homely | |
| Denunciation | |
| Fluted | |
| Articulate | |
| Loquacious | |
| Laceration | |
| Somber | |
| Fretted | |
| Seldom | |
| Taciturn | |
| Apt | |
| Catharsis | |
| Hubris | |
| Heathen | |
| Abomination | |
| Cognizance | |
| Denouement | |
| Dallied | (v) To waste time; to have a casual romance with someone John Proctor and Abigail Williams dallied together, causing Elizabeth to be furious. |
| Junta | (n) A military or political group that rules a country by taking power by force a dictatorship and a junta are almost the same thing. |
| Parochial | |
| Wanton | |
| Creed | |
| Antagonist | |
| Catholic | |
| Smirch | |
| Crucible | |
| Innate | |
| Rankle | |
| Dissemble | |
| Maraud | |
| Barbaric | (adj) Savagely cruel or brutal A 100 years later, the Salem Witch trials were considered a barbaric practice, because it was cruel and inhumane. |
| Congeries | |
| Mores | (n) Manners or moral of a community Not abiding with the court was an offense to the social mores. |
| Dissonant | (adj) Lacking harmony The dissonant music piece was not pleasant to listen to. |
| Introspection | |
| Intimate | |
| Inculcation | (n) The act of implanting by repeating a statement. Abigail used inculcation on the town by repeating that people are being influenced by the Devil. |
| Lascivious | |
| Resonance | |
| Perspicacious | |
| Calumny | (n) A false, defaming statement Senator McCarthy made a calumny when he defamed and accused several entertainers. |
| Fetish | |
| Abide | |
| Auspicious | |
| Craven | |
| Sidle | (v) Creep or sneak I sidled behind her, to figure out where she is going |
| Malign | |
| Licentious | (adj) Disregarding accepted rules (immoral) Abigail is licentious because of all of her deeds. |
| Conspicuous | |
| Ignominious | |
| Allegory | |
| Metaphor | |
| Symbol | |
| Synecdoche | |
| Allusion | |
| Personification | |
| Understatement | |
| Hyperbole | |
| Simile | |
| Metonymy | |
| Connotation | |
| Denotation | |
| Diction | |
| Syntax | |
| Alliteration | |
| Assonance | |
| Onomatopoeia | |
| Couplet | |
| Sestina | |
| Sonnet | |
| Villanella | |
| End rhyme | |
| Stanza | |
| Iamb | |
| Narrative Poetry | |
| Epic | |
| Ballad | |
| Haiku | |
| Enjambment | |
| Blank Verse | |
| Epigram | |
| Lyric Poetry | |
| Elegy | |
| Ode | |
| Internal Rhyme | |
| End Stopped Line | |
| open form (Free Verse) | |
| Verbal Irony | |
| Dramatic Irony | |
| Situational Irony | |
| Epigram | |
| Arrears | |
| Cavorting | |
| Consecrate | |
| Pious | |
| Ethereal | |
| Dross | |
| Atrocious | |
| Clout | |
| Fortnight | |
| Pompous | |
| Polyglot | |
| Usurp | |
| Approbation | |
| Cacophony | |
| Lamentation | |
| Pram | |
| Psychosomatic | |
| Euphoria | |
| Blather | |
| Gallivanting | |
| Nadir | |
| Squander | |
| Irked | |
| Deranged | |
| Catechism | |
| Affliction | |
| Perfidious | |
| Succumb | |
| Sanction | |
| Groused | |
| Contrite | |
| Relent | |
| Jauntily | |
| Emulate | |
| Implacable | |
| Flay | |
| Guise | |
| Emphatic | |
| Fiat | |
| Bicameral | |
| Assail | |
| Gall | |
| Peevish | |
| Gainsay | |
| Bipartisan | |
| Doggerel | |
| Copious | |
| Ebb | |
| Gratuitous | |
| Biennial | |
| Antebellum | |
| Epiphany | |
| Evanescent | |
| Pecuniary | |
| Xenophobe | |
| Verdant | |
| Acrimonious | |
| Acquiescence | |
| Cantankerous | |
| Hegemony | |
| Appease | |
| Ecclesiastical | |
| Corroborate | |
| Mollify | |
| Oligarchy | |
| Predilection | |
| Feral | |
| Palliate | |
| Temerity | |
| Plutocrat | |
| Blasphemy | |
| Prerogative | |
| Premise | |
| Reconnaissance | |
| Formidable | |
| Morose | |
| Unmitigated | |
| Undulate | |
| Umbrage | |
| Diffident | |
| Halcyon | |
| Sadistic | |
| Maudlin | |
| Gaff | |
| Anachronism | |
| Platitude | |
| Matriarchy | |
| Giddy | |
| Ramshackle | |
| Chronic | |
| Gripe | |
| Notorious | |
| Lobotomy | |
| Chronological | |
| Ornery | |
| Braggart | |
| Belligerent | |
| Bellicose | |
| Synchronous | |
| Bedlam | |
| Circumvent | |
| Circumlocution | |
| Circumnavigate | |
| Circumspect | |
| Preclude | |
| Precede | |
| Congenital | |
| Concord | |
| Collusion | |
| Coalesce | |
| Demented | |
| Demote | |
| Obtrude | |
| Obviate | |
| Obliterate | |
| Obsess | |
| Decadent | |
| Deprecate | |
| Perturb | |
| Perennial | |
| Permeate | |
| Perforate | |
| Deciduous | |
| Deviate | |
| Grunts | |
| Exuberance | |
| Rectitude | |
| Invulnerable | |
| Supercilious | |
| Intransitive | |
| Drudgery | |
| Salvage | |
| Cadre | |
| Caste | |
| Taut | |
| Kilter | |
| Napalm | |
| Hamlet | |
| Betroth | |
| Volition | |
| Denotation | |
| Intrigue | |
| Rapport | |
| Abdicate | |
| Mundane | |
| Defoliant | |
| Causality | |
| Giddy | |
| Euphemism | |
| Penal | |
| Penance | |
| Punitive | |
| Alacrity | |
| Abjure | |
| Perjury | |
| Jurisprudence | |
| Objurgate | |
| Conflagration | |
| Accede | |
| Antecedent | |
| Concession | |
| Precedent | |
| Festoon | |
| Concise | |
| Excise | |
| Incisive | |
| Obsequious | |
| Glutton | |
| Futility | |
| Aberration | |
| Precocious | |
| Adroit |
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