English III Honors Vocab
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| Cogent | To the point; relevant, pertinent, believable
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| Didactic | Meant to instruct
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| Abstruse | Hard to understand; esoteric; secret, hidden
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| Dilatory | Slow, tardy, tending to procrastinate
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| Enervate | To deprive of force or strength
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| Indolent | Slothful; lacking energy
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| Soporific | Causing/tending to cause sleep
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| Paucity | Insufficient
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| Frenetic | Frantic
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| Garrulous | Chattering; babbling; talkative
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| Insipid | Boring; pointless
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| Egregious | Extraordinary/obvious in some bad way
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| Imperious | Domineering in a haughty manner
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| Assiduous | Constant; unremitting
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| Fastidious | Picky; demanding; hard to please
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| Punctilious | Extremely attentive to detail
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| Auspicious | Promising success; favored by fortune
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| Spurious | Not genuine; not authentic or true
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| Capricious | Unpredictable; impulsive
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| Pejorative | Belittling; tending to make worse
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| Exculpate or Vindicate | Free from blame or accusations
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| Deleterious | Harmful to health
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| Stymied | To hinder, block, or thwart
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| Amenable | Agreeable or even submissive
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| Salutary | Beneficial, especially to health
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| Sanguine | Cheerfully optimistic
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| Innocuous | Harmless
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| Fractious | Unruly; readily angered
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| Insolent | Boldly rude or disrespectful
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| Obdurate | Stubborn; unable to be persuaded
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| Parsimonious | Stingy
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| Itinerant | Traveling from place to place
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| Transitory | Not permanent
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| Harbinger | One who announces the approach/coming of another
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| Capacious | Spacious; capable of holding much
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| Copious | Full of something, especially information or matter
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| Prodigious | Extraordinary in size, amount or extent
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| Pragmatic | Logical, having a good point of view
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| Conflagration | A large, destructive fire
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| Clandestine | Secret
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| Implacable | Unable to be brought to peace or reconciled
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| Mercurial | Changeable; volatile
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| Pugnacious | Inclined to fight/quarrel; quarrelsome
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| Furtive | Secretive
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| Impetuous | Sudden or rash in action
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| Equanimity | Mental/emotional stability/composure
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| Incontrovertible | Set in stone; unable to be changed
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| Inveterate | Settled; established; (in some cases,) chronic
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| Reticent | Told not to speak freely
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| Surreptitious | Done with secrecy
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| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time
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| Tenuous | Thin or slender in form
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| Timorous | Full of fear; fearful
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| Trepidation | Trembling or quivering movement
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| Prosaic | Commonplace; dull
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| Eclectic | From different sources
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| Laudatory | Containing/expressing praise
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| Trenchant | Incisive or keen
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