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English Honors 2011

vocabulary for EHS english honors program on a week by week basis

DefinitionTerm
Temporary inactivity or suspension, cessation abeyance
To credit, assign, or attribute ascribe
A close relationship, blood relationship consanguinity
To stop doing something desist
To throw out, ban, to evict eject
Vanishing, fleeting, lasting for only a moment evangescent
To pound in, to teach by repetition, to implant by repeated statement or admonition inculcate
Formal or elaborate praise panegyric
Presenting favorable conditions propitious
Repetitive redundant
Cheerful and optimistic sanguine
Secret, stealthy, sneaky surreptitious
A person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal Pleasures of life. Rigorously abstinent. ascetic
Pertaining to marriage conjugal
To dry out or to make dried out desiccate
Lacking in vigor and energy, degenerate or decadent effete
Agreeable sound euphony
The amount by which something increases by increment
Possessing or exhibiting great wealth or characterized by rich abundance opulent
Make favorably inclined, to appease propritiate
To give or feel in return reciprocate
Good for your health salutary
To allow to retire because of age or experience, to get rid of because it is out or date superannuate
Protection, support, sponsorship aegis
Changeable, erratic, governed by whim capricious
Believable credible
Inequality or difference disparity
Hugeness, atrociousness, horrible enormity
By luck, random chance fortuitous
Non-professional people. People outside of a particular occupation, non priest laity
A direct vote by the voters plebiscite
A play on words, a joke, to play on words pun
Leftovers, money paid annually, left over residual
Having or producing a full, deep, and rich sound sonorous
Open to bribery, willing to sell your influence, mercenary venal
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