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List C-11
English 11 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 151. awry (adj.) | turned or twisted; askew; off course. His plans, so carefully made weeks in advance, went awry when he came down with a cold and had to cancel |
| 152. vendetta (n) | a hereditary blood feud; an act motivated by vengeance. The drive-by shooting was a vendetta springing from an alleged infringement of gang boundaries |
| 153. bestial (adj.) | pertaining to animals; savage; subhuman in intelligence. With a bestial cry, the outraged football fan threw his bowl of pretzels at the TV set in frustration at his team’s defeat. |
| 154. commodious (adj.) | spacious, roomy; convenient. “The room...was of a commodious and well-proportioned size.” (Jane Austen) |
| 155. dire (adj.) | having dreadful or terrible consequences; sinister. Having ignored the weather forecasters’ dire predictions of an incoming storm, Forest had only himself to blame when the squall sank his boat. |
| 156. enamored (v) | to inspire with love; charm; captivate (used in the passive with of or with). Enamored of the mild California climate, she found it difficult to consider colleges or universities which received snow or ice. |
| 157. flippant (adj.) | marked by disrespectful levity. Although he did not mean to be disrespectful, his flippant comment, “Yeah, right, Einstein,” offended his parents. |
| 158. hors d’oeuvre (pl n) | French. an appetizer (“outside of the work”) Gorging themselves on plate after plate of hors d’oeuvres, the guests found they had no appetite at all for the main course. |
| 159. impropriety (n) | an improper act. Although it is now a common practice, many traditional parents bristle at the impropriety of young people living together before marriage. |
| 160. insatiable (adj.) | incapable of being satisfied. Midas’s insatiable desire for gold was not satisfied until he was faced with the problem of eating gilt burritos. |
| 161. wont (adj.) | accustomed or used to; apt or likely “The poor man is wont to complain that this is a cold world.” (Thoreau) |
| 162. melodramatic (adj.) | having the excitement of suspenseful, sensational, romantic drama; over emotional, over sensationalized, over exaggerated The melodramatic novels at the Safeway checkout stand offer bored housewives an escape from the dreary life of the suburbs. |
| 163. opaque (adj.) | impenetrable by light; dense. “He was a thick skinned, seemingly opaque...almost stupid man.” (Carlyle) |
| 164. parable (n) | a short simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. The parable of the prodigal son suggested to Victor that his profligate and dissipated behavior would be forgiven and forgotten |
| 165. sentient (adj.) | having sense perception; conscious. “The living knew themselves [to be] just sentient puppets on God’s state.” (T.E. Lawrence) |
| 166. disconcert (v) | to upset the self-possession of; to ruffle or perturb. I was so disconcerted by the body piercing on the eyebrows, forehead, nostrils, lips, cheeks, ears, and tongue of the ticket vendor that I forgot what movie it was I wanted to see. |
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