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English vocabulary !
EHS 9th grade vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To give up or renounce "authority", "duties", and "office". | Abdicate |
| A person who leads an austerely, simple life especially one who obtains from the normal life. | Ascetic |
| Pertaining to married life | Conjugal |
| To dry out or get dried out | Desiccate |
| Lacking in vigor or energy; degenerate; decadent | Effete |
| Agreeable sound | Euphony |
| An amount in which something raises | Increment |
| Possessing or showing great wealth | Opulent |
| To make favorability inclined to appease | Propitiate |
| To give or feel in return | Reciprocate |
| Promoting good health | Salutary |
| You let them retire | Superannuate |
| Protection | Aegis |
| Changeable | Capricious |
| Believable | Credible |
| Inequality, difference | Disparity |
| Hugeness, horribleness | Enormity |
| Accidental or unplanned. Lucky chance. | Fortuitous |
| Lay people rather than clergy | Laity |
| Vote of all citizens, expression of public will | Plebiscite |
| Play on words | Pun |
| Left over | Residual |
| Producing sound, resonant, impressive speaking | Sonorous |
| Open to bribery | Venal |
| Temporary inactivity | Obeyance |
| Credit, assign, attribute | Ascribe |
| Blood relationship | Consanguinity |
| Stop an activity | Desist |
| Throw out or evicte | Eject |
| Vanishing, fleeting, lasting only a moment | Evanescent |
| Pounding in, to implant a statement | Inculcate |
| Formal or elaborate phrase | Panegyric |
| Preventing favorable condition | Propitious |
| Repetitive | Redundant |
| To be cheerful or optimistic | Sanguine |
| Secretive, stealthy, and sneaky | Surreptitious |
| Having to do with beauty | Aesthetic |
| Disaster or giant upheaval | Cataclysm |
| Gullible | Credulous |
| Disagreement or differ of opinion | Dissent |
| The study of insects | Entomology |
| Not serious or important | Frivolous |
| A sattire (mocking) | Lampoon |
| Shrewd, prudent | Politic |
| Super careful | Punctilious |
| Undoing damage done | Restitution |
| Going out to attack | Sortie |
| Check the truth of | Verify |
| Run away | Abscond |
| Harshness | Asperity |
| Go against | Contravene |
| To become worse or less valuable | Deteriorate |
| Having/showing good taste, refinement, or beauty | Elegant |
| To call forth. | Evoke |
| Placing someone into an "office" or "group" | Induction |
| Living at the expense of others | Parasitic |
| Supporter of a cause or an idea | Proponent |
| To entertain lavishly | Regale |
| Bitter, sarcastic, and scornful. | Sardonic |
| To make happen at the same time. | Synchronize |
| To put fear to rest. Relieve. | Allay |
| To make a little picky objection | Cavil |
| Mysterious secret | Cryptic. |
| Active during the day | Diurnal |
| Physical surroundings | Environment |
| Without an apparent reason. | Gratuitous. |
| Chatty. | Loquacious. |
| A preference. Tendency to think favorably of. | Predilection |
| To claim to be. | Purport |
| Operative with respect to the past. | Retroactive |
| Apparently good. Right though lacking any merit. | Specious |
| Common language of an area. | Vernacular |
| To give conccent | Accede |
| To plan cleverly | Contrive |
| A loss, damage, or disadvantage. | Detriment |
| Noun: best of the best Adj: best | Elite |
| Verb: to cut out Noun: tax | Excise |
| Artless, innocent, nieve, or child like | Ingenuous |
| Noun 1:sponsor(s) Noun 2:regular customer | Patron. |
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