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English Vocabulary

English 3b Honors Vocabulary Words,

TermDefinition
Attrition A natural loss of individuals.
Circumvent To avoid by going around; to escape from
Cohesive Sticking or holding together
Grievous Causing grief or pain.
Inundate To cover, as by flooding; overwhelm with a large number or amount
Oblivious Not noticing; unaware.
Reticent Quiet or uncommunicative
Robust Strong and well.
Sanction To grant approval of.
Vociferous Noisy; expressing feelings loudly and intensley
Bolster To support.
Depreciate To become less valuable.
Indiscriminate Not selective.
Inquisitive Questioning.
Nebulous Indefinite.
Relegate To send.
Replete Filled.
Sedentary Involving much sitting.
Tenet A principle.
Terse Short.
Autonomy Freedom from control.
Bureaucratic Over-regulated.
Mandate An authorization.
Ostracise To reject.
Raucous Disorderly; loud.
Recourse A way to get help.
Reiterate To repeat.
Tantamount Just like.
Tenacious Grasping strongly.
Utopia A paradise.
Clandestine Concealed.
Contingency A possibility.
Egocentric Self-involved.
Exonerate To be found not guilty.
Incongruous Contradictory.
Indigenous Native.
Liability A handicap.
Prolific Creating abundantly.
Reinstate To put back.
Superfluous Unnecessary.
Advocate To promote
Antipathy A strong dislike.
Emancipate To free.
Idiosyncrasy A personal habit.
Imminent Likely to occur soon.
Implede To hinder.
Inclusive Complete.
Jurisdiction Control.
Precarious Unsafe.
Preposterous Ridiculous.
Austere Very plain
Esoteric Difficult to understand
Facsimile An accurate copy
Grotesque Strange-looking
Mesmerize To fascinate
Metamorphosis A change in form
Notorious Regarded negatively
Perfunctory Uniterested
Provocative Attention-getting
Travesty A joking, disrespectful imitation.
Created by: Musaaddie
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