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Ferguson's List 4
List 4 for Ms. Ferguson's Honors
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| abrogate | to abolish; repeal, annul |
| apposite | fitting, apt, appropriate, relevant |
| argot | specialized vocabulary of a particular group |
| bombastic | marked by a pretentious, inflated use of language |
| bowdlerize | to remove offensive portions of a book |
| cant | slang, argot |
| circumlocutory | wordy, roundabout in expression |
| cogent | strongly persuasive or convincing as an argument |
| compendium | a summary; an abridgement |
| delete | to take out of; to cancel |
| discursive | rambling, wandering from one topic to another |
| doggerel | trivial, usually bad poetry |
| eclogue | a pastoral poem, usually a dialogue between shepherds |
| epithet | a word or phrase expressing some quality considered characteristic of a person or thing; an abusive word or phrase |
| etymology | the study of the origins and developments of specific words |
| euphemism | a less distasteful or offensive word or phrase substituted for one which might offend |
| expatiate | to speak or write at great length |
| explicit | clearly expressed; definite |
| expunge | to erase |
| expurgate | to remove offensive or obscene material from |
| extraneous | irrelevant |
| felicitous | appropriately expressed |
| garrulous | talkative, loquacious |
| germane | relevant |
| glib | done in a smouth, easy fashion |
| histrionic | theatrical; overacting; artificial |
| inarticulate | unable to speak clearly or expressively |
| laconic | expressing much in a few words; concise; terse, succint |
| loquacious | talkative |
| lucid | clear, either transparent or understandable; rational, sane |
| misnomer | a name or epithet wrongly applied |
| missive | a letter |
| orthography | correct spelling |
| paraphrase | to reword |
| perspicuous | clear and therefore easily understodd |
| philology | study of language development |
| pithy | full of meaning; terse and cogent |
| plagiarism | the act of taking words, ideas, etc from another and passing them off as one's own |
| prolix | wordy, verbose, or long-winded |
| pseudonym | an author's pen name |
| redundant | more than enough; wordy |
| relevant | on the subject, pertinent |
| sententious | expressing much in few words, terse, pithy; full of or fond of using maxim, proverbs, etc often ponderously trite or pompously moralizing |
| shibboleth | password; slogan |
| succinct | concise, terse |
| taciturn | almost always silent, not liking to talk |
| tautological | needless repetition of an idea in a different word or phrase |
| terse | free of superfluous words, concise, succint |
| verbose | wordy, prolix |
| vernacular | the common everyday language of people of a particular locality |
| voluble | talkative; glib; fluent |
Created by:
Kandrassa
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