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English 11B final
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| gregarious | sociable |
| egregarious | awful |
| atrophy | waste away |
| concise | briefly stated |
| sublime | grand |
| subliminal | subconcious |
| esoteric | hard to understand |
| eradicate | erase |
| sacrilege | irreverence toward something held sacred |
| satus quo | present conditions |
| reprehensible | shameful |
| supersilious | snooty (ety: raised/ brow) |
| haughty | snooty |
| arrogant | snooty |
| hoodwink | trick |
| dupe | trick |
| winsome | charming |
| fettid | foul- smelling |
| levity | humor |
| exhaustive | thorough |
| pandemonium | noisy chaos |
| maverick | innovator |
| aberrant | deviating from the normal |
| anachronism | person out of place and time |
| alacrity | promptness/ eagerness |
| ambivalent | undecided |
| incisive | cutting |
| amicable | most friendly |
| superfluous | nonessential |
| pacify | soothe (ety: peace/ to make) |
| appease | soothe |
| placate | soothe |
| foible | minor weakness |
| digressice | rambling |
| travesty | mockery |
| inadvertent | unintentional |
| incongruous | unfitting |
| peripheral | on the edge |
| brevity | briefness |
| volatile | explosive |
| eclipse | surpass |
| remorse | regret |
| scrupulous | principled |
| hedonistic | pleasure seeking (hedon: pleasure) |
| hedonist | party animal |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| animosity | ill will |
| emphatic | marked with emphasis |
| placid | calm, quiet |
| reconnaissance | survey |
| animosity | hostility |
| enmity | hostility |
| deplete | used up |
| stringent | strict |
| voluminous | very large (in number) |
| prodigious | enormous |
| ominous | unfavorable |
| willful | stubborn |
| bastion | stronghold |
| trepidation | fear |
| desecrate | damage a holy place |
| fortuitous | accidental |
| vehement | strongly expressed |
| dormant | inactive |
| inexplicable | unexplained |
| epicurean | refined |
| benefactor | generous donor |
| clandestine | secret |
| covert | secret (couver: covered) |
| supplicate | beg |
| welter | chaotic mess |
| allusive | referring/ hinting |
| conjecture | judgment based off a guess |
| compunctious | regretful |
| assail | attack |
| verbose | wordy |
| benign | harmless |
| innocuous | harmless |
| dearth | shortage |
| paucity | shortage |
| rescind | repeal |
| emulate | imitate |
| meander | wander |
| authoritarian | favoring strict rules |
| penitent | regretful |
| lucrative | profitable |
| construe | imterpret |
| concure | agree |
| tenacious | holding on strongly |
| rejuvenate | make young again |
| monogamous | restricted to one mate |
| promiscuous | not restricted to one mate |
| insatiable | unsatisfiable |
| cantankerous | grouchy |
| villify | degrade |
| precocious | unusually mature |
| repudiated | rejected with disapproval |
| squandered | spent wastefully |
| soporific | tending to cause sleep |
| morose | moody |
| pristine | uncorrupted |
| disseminate | distribute widely |
| pugent | penetrating |
| prudish | overly proper |
| sedentary | involving much sitting |
| innuendo | subtle putdown |
| eclectic | full of variety |
| metamorphosis | transformation |
| tycoon | bigshot |
| subpoena | summons |
| entourage | followers |
| invincible | unbeatable |
| panache | pizzazz |
| arduous | difficult |
| jaded | spoiled by luxury |
| abdicate | give up power |
| loath | reluctant |
| exonerate | set free from blame (ety: away from burden) |
| onerous | burdensome |
| symbiotic | mutually beneficial relationship |
| quandary | dilemma |
| acquiescence | passive consent |
| cacophony | disagreeable sound |
| capitulated | surrendered |
| epitome | typical |
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