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Assorted Vocab
English III Honors Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cogent | To the point; relevant, pertinent, believable |
| Didactic | Meant to instruct |
| Abstruse | Hard to understand; esoteric; secret, hidden |
| Dilatory | Slow, tardy, tending to procrastinate |
| Enervate | To deprive of force or strength |
| Indolent | Slothful; lacking energy |
| Soporific | Causing/tending to cause sleep |
| Paucity | Insufficient |
| Frenetic | Frantic |
| Garrulous | Chattering; babbling; talkative |
| Insipid | Boring; pointless |
| Egregious | Extraordinary/obvious in some bad way |
| Imperious | Domineering in a haughty manner |
| Assiduous | Constant; unremitting |
| Fastidious | Picky; demanding; hard to please |
| Punctilious | Extremely attentive to detail |
| Auspicious | Promising success; favored by fortune |
| Spurious | Not genuine; not authentic or true |
| Capricious | Unpredictable; impulsive |
| Pejorative | Belittling; tending to make worse |
| Exculpate or Vindicate | Free from blame or accusations |
| Deleterious | Harmful to health |
| Stymied | To hinder, block, or thwart |
| Amenable | Agreeable or even submissive |
| Salutary | Beneficial, especially to health |
| Sanguine | Cheerfully optimistic |
| Innocuous | Harmless |
| Fractious | Unruly; readily angered |
| Insolent | Boldly rude or disrespectful |
| Obdurate | Stubborn; unable to be persuaded |
| Parsimonious | Stingy |
| Itinerant | Traveling from place to place |
| Transitory | Not permanent |
| Harbinger | One who announces the approach/coming of another |
| Capacious | Spacious; capable of holding much |
| Copious | Full of something, especially information or matter |
| Prodigious | Extraordinary in size, amount or extent |
| Pragmatic | Logical, having a good point of view |
| Conflagration | A large, destructive fire |
| Clandestine | Secret |
| Implacable | Unable to be brought to peace or reconciled |
| Mercurial | Changeable; volatile |
| Pugnacious | Inclined to fight/quarrel; quarrelsome |
| Furtive | Secretive |
| Impetuous | Sudden or rash in action |
| Equanimity | Mental/emotional stability/composure |
| Incontrovertible | Set in stone; unable to be changed |
| Inveterate | Settled; established; (in some cases,) chronic |
| Reticent | Told not to speak freely |
| Surreptitious | Done with secrecy |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time |
| Tenuous | Thin or slender in form |
| Timorous | Full of fear; fearful |
| Trepidation | Trembling or quivering movement |
| Prosaic | Commonplace; dull |
| Eclectic | From different sources |
| Laudatory | Containing/expressing praise |
| Trenchant | Incisive or keen |
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