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English Vocabulary -
Units 6-10 for the Mid-term
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abashed | Embarrassed or ashamed |
| Aloof | Withdrawn, standing apart from others(usually as a matter of choice) |
| Anguish | Great suffering, distress, or pain; to be deeply tormented by pain or sorrow |
| Articulate | To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to fit together into a system; able to use language effectively; expressed clearly and forcefully |
| Bask | To be in or exposed oneself to, pleasant warmth; to take pleasure or derive enjoyment from |
| Defect | An imperfection or flaw of some king; to desert a cause or organization |
| Finesse | Delicate skill; tact and cleverness; to accomplish something by cleverness, good judgment and skillful evasion |
| Flaunt | to wave or flutter showily; to display in a conceited, offensive way |
| Forthright | Frank, direct, straightforward |
| Genial | Cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm |
| Instill | To add gradually; to introduce or cause to be taken in |
| Ostracize | To exclude from a group, banish, send away |
| Premonition | A forewarning or foreboding of a future event |
| Pseudonym | A pen name, name assumed by a writer |
| Purge | To wash away impurities, clean up; the process of getting rid o something or someone decisively |
| Rehabilitate | To make over in good form; to restore to good condition or to a former position |
| Repercussion | An effect or consequence of some action or event; an echo or reverberation |
| Resolute | Bold, determined, firm |
| Retentive | Able to hold or keep; retaining knowledge easily |
| Scapegoat | A person or thing carrying the blame for others |
| Acme | The highest point |
| Attribute | a quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something; to assign to , credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from |
| Belittle | TO make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value |
| Convey | to transport; transmit; to communicate, make known; to transfer ownership or title to |
| Doctrine | A belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles |
| Excise | To remove by cutting; an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a commodity or service |
| Exotic | Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual |
| Haggard | Thing, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking |
| Jaunty | Lively, easy and carefree (in a manner); smart or trim in appearance |
| Juncture | A joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time |
| Menial | lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity; a servant who does the humble and unpleasant tasks |
| Parry | To ward off, evade, avoid; a defensive movement in fencing and other sports |
| Predatory | Preying on, plundering, or piratical |
| Ravage | To destroy, lay waste, ruin; ruinous damage, destruction |
| Stance | A way of holding the body; an altitude or position on an issue |
| Tawdry | Showy and flashy but lacking in good taste |
| Turncoat | A person who switches to an opposing side or party |
| Unassuming | Not putting on airs; modest |
| Wallow | To roll about in a lazy clumsy or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance; a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse |
| Waver | To move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision |
| Abut | To join at one end or next to; support; prop up |
| Attire | Clothes, apparel; to dress or adorn |
| Avail | To be of use or benefit to; to make use of; use, benefit, value |
| Crony | A very close friend, pal or chum |
| Cryptic | Puzzling or mystifying |
| Divergent | Going in different directions, differing from each other, departing from convention, deviant |
| Enmity | Hatred, ill-will |
| Fervent | Very Earnest, emotional, passionate, extremely hot |
| Gaunt | Thing and bony, starved-looking bare and barren |
| Infiltrate | To pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily |
| Nullify | To make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out |
| Perceptible | Capable or being grasped by the senses or the mind |
| Plummet | To plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line |
| Proclaim | To declare publicly or officially |
| Proxy | An agent, substitute, a written permission allowing one to person to act in another's place |
| Rankle | To cause anger, irritation, or bitterness(With the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time) |
| Scavenger | A person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies |
| Stint | To limit, be sparing or frugal; a limit or restriction, a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity |
| Stoical | Self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain |
| Unflagging | Tireless, continuing with vigor |
| Apt | Suitable, fitting, likely, quickly to learn |
| Awry | In a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course |
| Bludgeon | A short club used as a weapon; to strike with a heavy club,; to use force or strong arguments to gain some point |
| Capitulate | To end resistance, to give up, surrender |
| Chafe | To warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction; annoy, irk; to strain or press against; a sore or injury caused by rubbing |
| Defile | To make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; to march in single line or in columns; a narrow passage |
| Dire | Dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action to avoid disaster |
| Disarming | Charming, tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion |
| Disgruntled | In bad humor, discontented, annoyed |
| Encroach | To advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass |
| Endow | To furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality |
| fend | To ward off, resist, to get along, manage |
| Impunity | Freedom from punishment |
| Mien | Air, manner, appearance, expression |
| Penal | Having to do with punishment |
| Pertinent | Related to the matter at hand, to the point |
| Predominant | The greatest in strength or power; most common |
| Prodigy | Something wonderful or marvelous; something monstrous or abnormal; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability or talent |
| Recluse | A person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world |
| Renown | Fame, glory |
| Accord | agreement, harmony' to agree, to be in harmony or bring into harmony, to grant, bestow on |
| Barter | An exchange in trade, to exchange goods |
| Curt | Short, rudely brief |
| Devise | To think out, plan, figure out, invent, create |
| Dexterous | Skillful in the use of the hands or body, clever |
| Engross | To occupy the complete attention, absorb fully |
| Entail | To put a burden on, impose, require, involve; to restrict (ownership of property)by limiting inheritance; such a restriction |
| Ferret | A kind of weasel; to search or hunt out; to torment or badger |
| Habituate | To become used to; to cause to become used to |
| Impending | About to happen, hanging over (in a menacing way) |
| Personable | Pleasing in appearance or personality, attractive |
| Rue | To regret, be sorry for; a feeling or regret |
| Scoff | To make fun of; to show contempt for |
| Transition | A change from one state or condition |
| Trepidation | Fear, fright, trembling |
| Upbraid | To blame, scold, find fault with |
| Veritable | Actual, true, real |
| Vex | To annoy, anger, exasperate, to confuse, baffle |
| Vitality | Strength, energy, liveliness; capacity to live and develop; the power to endure or survive |
| Whimsical | Subject to odd ideas, notions, or fancies; playful , unpredictable |
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