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BHS 4B Voc 11-17
Units 11-17 Vocabulary for English 4B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberration | a departure from the usual course |
| Adjudge | to decide by law; to pass sentence |
| Candor | frankness; openness |
| Corroborate | to confirm; to support or strengthen an idea or statement |
| Dearth | a scarcity; too small a supply of something |
| Diurnal | daily; occurring during the daytime |
| Herculean | extremely demanding or difficult |
| Ludicrous | laughable; amusingly absurd |
| Retrospect | a survey of things that happened in the past |
| Salient | standing out; easily seen or noticed |
| Artifice | a clever or artful device; a skill; a trick; trickery |
| Augury | the practice of foretelling the future from signs; an omen |
| Captivate | to catch the attention of; to charm |
| Chicanery | the use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade |
| Configuration | the composition of parts or elements of something; a shape |
| Deduce | to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts |
| Extant | still in existence; not extract or destroyed |
| Scrupulous | exact and careful |
| Proponent | a person who supports a cause or idea; an advocate |
| Refute | to disprove; to argue against |
| Civility | politeness; courtesy; a polite action |
| Connoisseur | someone who is an expert in some field |
| Exhilaration | invigoration; excitement |
| Foible | a minor weakness or fault; a shortcoming |
| Punctilious | paying attention to fine details; scrupulous |
| Gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
| Obsequious | too ready to please, praise, or obey |
| Germane | pertinent; to the point; applicable |
| Precocious | advanced for one’s age |
| Patrimony | an inheritance from one’s father or ancestor |
| Affront | an open, intentional insult; to insult openly; to offend |
| Capitulate | to give in; to surrender on certain terms |
| Effusion | a pouring forth; an unrestrained expression of feeling |
| Guffaw | a loud or coarse burst of laughter; to laugh loudly or coarsely |
| Incarcerate | to imprison; to confine |
| Indulgent | very lenient; making allowances/excuses |
| Magnanimous | generous in forgiving; noble and unselfish |
| Munificent | extremely generous |
| Propitious | favorable; favorably inclined |
| Querulous | complaining; faultfinding |
| Abeyance | a temporary suspension of an activity |
| Discrepancy | an inconsistency; a contradiction |
| Sumptuous | luxurious; costly; magnificent |
| Illicit | forbidden by law; improper |
| Inscrutable | mysterious or obscure; hard to understand |
| Perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous |
| Inundate | to cover by overflowing; to flood |
| Homogeneous | of the same kind or nature |
| Primordial | primitive; from the earliest times |
| Pervade | to extend all over; to spread throughout |
| Chastise | to scold; to punish |
| Demagogue | a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions |
| Deplore | to regret deeply; to disapprove of |
| Detriment | damage; harm; injury |
| Emanate | to issue forth from; to originate from |
| Harbinger | a forerunner; a herald; to announce; to indicate what will follow |
| Intercede | to plead or petition on another’s behalf |
| Irrevocable | not capable of being withdrawn or retracted |
| Obnoxious | highly offensive; hateful |
| Prevaricate | to evade the truth |
| Anarchy | the absence of government or law; political disorder |
| Cajole | coax; to persuade by pleasant words |
| Commodious | spacious; roomy |
| Ethnology | branch of anthropology dealing with customs and cultures |
| Extricate | to tear away from; to set free |
| Impair | to damage or weaken; to make worse |
| Menial | a domestic servant; work that is suited to a domestic servant |
| Nadir | the lowest possible point |
| Pestilence | a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an evil influence |
| Rampant | growing without restraint |
| derma | skin |
| sanguis | blood |
| manus | hands |
| flexi | bend;curve;turn |
| pedis | foot; feet |
| station/stato/stacy | standing; to stay;to make firm; fixed |
| miso | hate |
| placo | to please; to satisfy; peace; calm |
| auto | self |
| ego | I |
| homo/hom/hum | man |
| genos | race; kind; descend |
| mori | to die |
| nat/ nasc | born; birth |
| amo/amor | love; liking |
| philos | loving |
| capit/capt | head; leader |
| corp/corpo | body |
| ora/os/oro | speech; prayer; mouth |
| path/os | feeling; emotion; suffering |
| vor/vour | eat; consume |
| credo | believe; trust |
| theos | God; gods |
| sacr/sanct | sacred; holy |
| piet.pious | purify; devoted; dutiful |
| ratio | computation; reason |
| phren/fren | mind; sanity |
| cognoscere/ nosco | know |
| put/puta/pute | settle; consider; count |
| scrib | write |
| logos | speak; word; reason |
| graph/gram | write; draw |
| dict | tell; speak |
| loqu | speak |
| mor/mori/mort | death |
| inciner | burn to ashes |
| fevere | busy; agitated; boiling |
| umbra | shadow |
| fluere | flow |
| ordinis/ord | order |
| mutare | to change |
| turbos | disturb |
| chronos | time |
| neos | new |
| durare | harden |
| inter | among; between |
| quietis | peace |
| epi | after; upon |
| arch/archi | chief; first; rule |
| demos | people |
| duc/duct | lead |
| levid/lev | raise; to make light |
| veritas | truth |
| cata | down |
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