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Junior Vocab Words
Vocabulary Words 11th Grade Unit 1 2 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | adj able to get and retain ideas or information concerned with acquiring wealth or property(greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive) |
| Arrogate | v. to claim or take without right (expropriate, usurp, commandeer) |
| Banal | adj. hackneyed, trite, commonplace (stale, insipid) |
| Belabor | v. to work on excessively; to thrash soundly (overwork) |
| Carping | adj. tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty way n. petty, nagging, criticism (nit picking, caviling) |
| Coherent | adj. holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful (connected, unified, consistent, cohesive) |
| Congeal | v. to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid (harden, jell, coagulate, solidify) |
| emulate | v. to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model(copy, mimic, rival, match) |
| encomium | n. a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute (panegyric, eulogy, commendation) |
| eschew | v. to avoid, shun, keep away from (abstain from, steer clear of, forgo) |
| germane | adj. relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting, (pertiinent, ) |
| insatiable | adj. so great and demanding, as not to be satisfied (unquenchable, ravenous, voracious) |
| intransigent | adj. refusing to compromise; irreconcilable (uncompromising, unyielding) |
| invidious | adj. offensive, hateful, (malicious, spiteful, ) |
| largesse | n. generosity in giving, (bounty, munificence) |
| reconnaissance | n. a survey made for military purposes; a preliminary inspection (scouting expedition) |
| substantiate | v. to establish by evidence; to prove (verify, confirm, validate) |
| taciturn | adj. habitually silent or quiet (uncommunicative, laconic) |
| temporize | v. to postpone a decision; (procrastinate) |
| tenable | adj. capable of being held or defended; (defensible) |
| accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism |
| avid | intensely eager; desirous of something to the point of greed |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| devious | straying from a direct course;done in a shifty way |
| gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk (ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver) |
| halcyon | a lengendary bird(n) (adg) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful, happy, golden, prosperous, affluent (tranquil, serene, placid, palmy) |
| histrionic | adj. pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, melodramatic (affected, stagy) |
| incendiary | adj. deliberately settin gor causing fires noun; arsonist |
| maelstrom | n. a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool |
| myopic | adj. nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view of a situation; lacing foresight or discernment (shortsighted) |
| overt | adj; open, not hidden (clear, obvious, manifest, patent) |
| pejorative | adj; tending to make worse; expressing disapproval |
| propriety | n; the state of being proper (fitness, correctness, decorum) |
| sacrilege | n; improper or disrespectful treatment of something (desecration, profanation, defilement) |
| summarily | adv; without delay or formality; briefly (promptly, preemptorily, abrubtly) |
| suppliant | adj; asking humbly noun; one who makes a request humbly, a petitioner, suitor |
| talisman | noun, an object that acts as a charm |
| undulate | v; to move in waves or with a wavelike motion (ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall) |
| articulate | v. to pronounce distinctly; to express well; to connect by joints adj, expressed clearly and forcefully; able to emply language clearly and forcefully; jointed (pronounce, elucidate(v) (adj. eloquent) |
| cavort | v. to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry (gambol) |
| credence | noun; belief, mental acceptance (credit, trust, confidence) |
| decry | v. to condemn (denounce, censure, devalue) |
| dissemble | v. to disguise or conceal (dissimulate, mask, feign) |
| distraught | adj. very much agitated (frantic, distracted)_ |
| eulogy | n. a formal statement of commendation; high praise (panegyric, encomium, tribute, testimonial) |
| evince | v to display clearly; to make evident, to provoke (exhibit, manifest, occasion) |
| exhume | v. to remove from a grave; to bring to light (disinter, unearth, uncover) |
| feckless | adj; lacking in spirit and strength, ineffective, weak, irresponsible, unreliable (feeble, helpless, incompetent) |
| murky | adj; dark and gloomy, obscure, (dim, cloudy, unclear) |
| nefarious | adj; wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards (iniquitous, reprehensible) |
| piquant | adj; spicy, pungent, appealing, provacative (tangy, zestful) |
| primordial | adj; developed or created at the very beginning (original, primeval, primal) |
| propinquity | n; nearness in place or time; kinship (proximity, similarity) |
| unwonted | adj; not usual or expected; not in character (unusual, uncommon, unexpected, atypical) |
| utopian | adj; founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical (idealistic) |
| verbiage | n. language that is too wordy; (verbosity, polixity, diction, jargon) |
| verdant | adj; green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment (artless, naive) |
| viscous | adj; having a gelatinous or gluey quality (gummy, sticky, thick) |
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