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Vocabulary

12th Grade Unit 1 Vocabulary Words

TermDefinition
Adjunct Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity.
Bellwether The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse;a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends.
Caterwaul To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel;(n.)a harsh or noisy cry; a racket.
Chimerical Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible.
Effete Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce;out-of-date.
Fait accompli An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact or action.
Hidebound Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in options or prejudices;stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative.
Hierarchy Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.
Liturgy A religious service or rite; the form of a ritualor other act of public worship.
Mirage Something illusory, without a basis in reality; an illusion.
Morass A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand.
Noisome Offensive or disgusting;foul-smelling; harmful or injurious.
Oblivious Forgetful;unaware.
Poltroon A base coward.
Proselyte A convert; a disciple.
Quasi Resembling but not actually being;seemingly but not actually or completely.
Raillery Good-humored ridicule; teasing.
Ribald Irreverently mocking; obscene, or licentious coarse, vulgar, or lewd in language.
Supine Lying flat on one's back or lying face upward; sluggish or lethargic; apathetic. passive.
Vignette A short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
Created by: Ms.Williamson
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