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English 9 Finals
English 9 vocab-finals 2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contagion | an influence that soreads rapidly |
| indeterminate | vague, not fixed in advance |
| plaintive | sad or mournful |
| rivieted | to fix or direct attention completely |
| idle | lazy, inactive |
| innumerable | too numerous to be counted |
| grimace | a twisting or distortion of the face expressing pain, contempt, or disgust |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or intellect |
| chasm | a deep opening in the earth's surface; a gorge, differences of opinions, interests, or loyalties |
| chide | to scold, to voice disaproval |
| defame | to libe or slander; take away a good name |
| deft | skillfull, dexterous |
| exhume | to dig from a grave; to bring to light, uncover |
| feign | to give a false appearence, to pretend |
| fortutious | good fortune occuring by accident or chance |
| abhor | to hate very much, to detest utterly |
| abridge | to shorten, to condense |
| beset | to harass, to surround |
| blather | to talk nonsensically |
| cacophony | harsh sounds |
| cajole | to coax, to persuade into doing something they don't want to do |
| emulate | to equal or supass usually by intimidation |
| erudite | deeply learned, scholarly |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| accolade | an award, honnor, approval, praise |
| affinity | a natural attraction; kinship |
| aggrandize | to increase in size; enlarge, to cause to appear greater in power, influence |
| bludgeon | to hit or attack with heavy impact; a short heavy thick club that has one end larger than the other |
| bucolic | rural or rustice in nature, country-like |
| scope | see or watch |
| phil | love |
| auto | self |
| ped | foot |
| hydro | water |
| bene | good or well |
| tract | draw or pull |
| pan | all |
| graph | written |
| ology | study of |
| meter | measure |
| aud | hear |
| tele | far |
| cide | kill |
| uni | core |
| port | carry |
| abut | to border upon, to adjoin |
| antecedent | goin before, preceeding |
| beget | to give birth to, to create |
| bulwark | a defensive wall; something serving a defense |
| callow | immature and inexperienced |
| castigate | to criticize harshly, usually with the intention of correcting a wrong doing |
| adjunct | somthing connected to another in a subordinate possition |
| arduous | hard, difficult, tiresome |
| artisan | a worker skilled in a craft |
| capacious | roomy, able to hold much |
| chattel | an item of personal property |
| cloister | a tranquil, secluded place |
| mysticism | vauge, obscure, thinking or belief; doctrine that states it's possible to achieve communion with God through contemplation and love |
| encumbered | held back; weighed downby something heavy |
| cabala | a body of mystical Jewish beleifs/teachings based on the interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures as containing hidden meaning |
| Fascists | a person who favvors dictorial government, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism |
| Anti-Semetic | hating or discrimintating against Jews |
| expound | explain or interpret; clarify |
| hermitically | sealed in a completely air-tight way |
| perstilence | fatally contagious or infectious disease |
| phone | sound |
| civ | citizen |
| dict | say |
| mis/mit | send |
| mob/mot | move |
| cred | beleive |
| man | hand |
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