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10th Grade Eng Final
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| lament | to mourn out loud |
| Gamesome | merry frolicsome |
| Semblance | outward appearance, form, resemblance |
| Mettle | A vigor and strength of spirit or temperament; character; personality |
| Palter | to act insincerely or deceitfully |
| Redress | To set right, remedy, correct |
| Coffer | Chest, box, treasury, |
| Provender | Dry food for domesticated animals |
| Peril | Exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed to lost |
| Vile | Disgusting or utterly bad; of small worth |
| Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively |
| Cogitations | Thoughts |
| Portent | Something the foreshadows a coming event |
| Avenge | To take vengeance for or on behalf of;to exact satisfaction for a wrong by punishing the wrong doer; Revenge |
| Visage | The face, countenance or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| Chide | To voice disapproval to; to reproach in a mild and constructive manner; Scold |
| Apparition | A ghostly figure |
| Choler | Anger; Wrath; Irritability |
| Nimble | Quick and light in movement; moving w/ease; Agile |
| Infirmity | A physical weakness or ailment |
| Dissent | One who disagrees |
| Cynical | Believing all actions are attributed to selfish motives; Pessimistic |
| Plaited | interwoven strands or locks; braided |
| Enmity | Positive, active and typically mutual hatred or ill-will |
| Apathy | Lack of feeling, emotion, or interest; indifference |
| Gambol | to skip about in play; frisk |
| Pre-eminent | Having paramount rank, dignity or importance; Outstanding |
| Cryptic | Intended to be obscure or mysterious |
| Irrepressible | Impossible to repress, restrain or control |
| Procured | To get possession of or to obtain by particular care or effort |
| Articulate | Expressing oneself readily, clearly or efectively |
| Malignity | An instance of malignity (evil in nature, influence or effect) or malicious behavior or nature; Ill will |
| Capitulate | to surrender;often after negotiation of terms |
| Retribution | Something given or exacted in compensation; Punishment |
| Skulking | Moving furtively; Sneaking |
| Unscathed | Wholly unharmed; not unjured |
| Censured | To find fault with and criticize as blameworthy |
| Contrived | To bring about by stratagem;To make schemes |
| Complicity | The state of being an accomplished; partnership |
| Demeanor | Conduct; way of carrying oneself; bearing; behavior |
| Superannuated | To retire and pension because of age or infirmity |
| Inebriate | One that is drunk; a drunkard |
| Morose | Having a sullen disposition; Gloomy |
| Taciturn | Disinclined to talk; reserved;uncommunicative |
| Subsist | exist; persist; to have the means of maintaining life, esp.to nourish yourself |
| Truncheon | Club; a police officer's billy |
| Interminable | Having or seeming to have no end |
| Rectify | To correct by removing errors |
| Zealot | To be an overly zealous (passionate to the point of fanaticism) person |
| Inexorable | Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty; inflexible |
| Rasp | To grate upon; irritate |
| Inextiicable | Forming a maze or a tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| bureaucrat | A member of a bureaucracy; esp: a government official who follows a narrow rigid routine or who is established w/ great authority in his own department |
| Reverence | Honor or respect felt or shown |
| Exhortation | Language inclined to incite and encourage |
| Impudent | Marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others |
| Ingenious | Marked by originality, resourcefulness and cleverness in conception or execution; clever |
| Formidable | Tending to inspire awe or wonder |
| Lethargic | The quality or state of being lazy or indifferent |
| Prevaricate | To deviate from the truth; lie |
| Eminent | Standing above others in some quality or position, important |
| Demur | Hesitation(As in doing something accepting) Usually based on doubt of the acceptability of something offered or proposed |
| Utopia | A place of ideal perfection; esp in laws, gov, and social conditions |
| Depracate | To express mild or regretful disapproval of; dissapointment |
| Inviolate | Not violated or profaned; pure; sacred |
| Deride | To subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule |
| Queue | A waiting line esp. of persons or vehicles |
| Listless | Characterized by lack of inclination or impetus to exertion; sluggish |
| Strident | Characterized by harsh, insistent and discordant sound |
| Lackey | A servile follower |
| Drivel | To talk stupidly and carelessly |
| Proffer | To present for acceptance; offer;suggestion |
| Gesticulate | To make gestures, especially when speaking |
| Furtive | Expressive of stealth; sly; secret |
| Scar | A steep, rocky, eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain |
| Pallid | Deficient in color; pale |
| Enimity | Bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy; hostility |
| Efflorescence | The action or process of developing and unfolding as if coming into a flower |
| Myriad | Having innumerable aspects of elements |
| Malevolent | Having, showing or arising from intense, often vicious ill will, spite or hatred |
| Incredulous | Unwilling to admit or accept that what is offered is true; skeptical |
| Preposterous | Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd |
| Tremulous | Characterized or affected with trembling or tremors |
| Diffident | Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence |
| Derision | An object of ridicule or scorn |
| Exult | To be extremely joyful |
| Myopia | A condition in which visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eyes, resulting especially in defect vision of distant objects; near sighted |
| Trunculent | Feeling or display ferocity |
| Propitiate | To gain or regain the favor of goodwill of |
| Ululate | Howl, wail |
| Ensconce | To settle comfortably or snugly |
| Ludicrous | Amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity or exaggeration |
| Interminable | Having or seeming to have no end |
| Impervious | Incapable of being passed through, permeated, or reached |
| Runnel | A small stream, brook |
| Saunter | To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner |
| Buffet | Something that strikes with telling force |
| Vapid | Lacking liveliness, briskness or force |
| Erratic | Characterized by lack of consistency, regularity or uniformity |
| Sojourn | A temporary stay |
| Tyranny | Oppressive power |
| Benign | Of mild character; kind |
| Malignant | Evil in nature, influence or effect |
| Ingenuous | Showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| Inconspicuos | Not readily noticeable |
| Yield | To give up possession of |
| Perpentrate | To bring about or carry out (as a crime); commit |
| Interrogate | To question formally and systematically |
| Altercation | A noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| pensive | Suggestive of sad thoughtfulness |
| Expunge | To strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| Temerity | Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rash recklessness |
| Tacit | expressed or carrier on w/o words or speech |
| Feral | Of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast; savage |
| Adamant | Unshakable or immovable, especially in opposition; inflexible |
| Brevity | expression in few words; conciseness |
| Impertinent | Not restrained within due or proper bound; rude |
| Amiable | Having a friendly, sociable and congenial disposition; friendly |
| Statute | A law enacted be a legislative branch of government |
| Perpetual | Occurring continually; indefinitely; continuously; everlasting |
| Melancholy | Depression of spirits; a pensive mood; depressed |
| Tentative | Not fully worked out or developed; uncertain |
| Infallible | incapable of error; perfect |
| Contentious | Always ready to argue; quarrlesome |
| Squalor | Filthy wretched condition or quality |
| Predicament | A difficult, perplexing or trying situation, condition or state |
| Murmur | To talk quietly or under your breath |
| Inevitable | Incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| Kin | A group of people having common ancestry; family |
| Stolid | Having or reveling little emotion or sensibility; impassive |
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