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Quarter 4 Vocabulary Words
words from P&P
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10th Grade
05/13/2008

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Term
Scrupulous
Definition
ADJ.

painstakingly careful to do what is right
Term
Caprice
Definition

Noun

 

a sudden impulsive action

Term
surmise
Definition

verb

 

to suppose based on slight evidence

Term
dispatch
Definition

Verb

 

to send off or away

Term

fastidious

Definition

adj.

 

hard to please

 

Term
affectation
Definition

noun

 

an artificial or insincere manner

Term
pliant
Definition

adj.

 

flexible

yielding easily

Term
supercilious
Definition

adj.

 

arrogant

haughty

Term
impertinent
Definition

adj.

 

rude

Term
pedantic
Definition

adj.

 

needlessly and tediously displaying learning

Term
effusion
Definition

noun

 

an outpouring of emotion or words

Term
solicitude
Definition

noun

 

anxious care or protectivness

Term
indolent
Definition

adj.

 

lazy

declined to move

Term
decorum
Definition

noun

 

appropriateness and good taste in conduct

Term
civility
Definition

noun

 

courtesy, politness

Term
panegyric
Definition

noun

 

a formal elaborate praise in oratory or writing

Term
celerity
Definition

noun

 

swiftness

Term
expostulate
Definition

verb

 

to reason earnestly esp. in dissagreement

Term
alacrity
Definition

noun

 

promptness in response

cheerful readiness

Term
affront
Definition

verb

 

to offend or insult

Term
laconic
Definition

adj

 

concise in expression to the point of seeming rude or mysterious

Term
iniquitous
Definition

adj.

 

wicked, evil, unjust

Term
beneficent
Definition

adj.

 

doing good

charitable

Term
asperity
Definition

noun

 

harshness of surface, sound or manner

Term
affability
Definition

noun

 

friendliness

pleasant manner

Term
veracity
Definition

noun

 

truthfulness, accuracy

Term
taciturn
Definition

adj.

 

reluctant to speak

silent

stern

unspoken

Term
posterity
Definition

noun

 

future generations

Term
eclat
Definition

noun

 

brillant effect, publicity, dazzling success

Term
hauteur
Definition

noun

 

 arrogance, haughtyness

Term
upbraid
Definition

verb

 

to reproach serverly

scold

Term
probity
Definition

noun

 

honesty, intergrity

Term
derision
Definition

noun

 

ridicule, mockery

Term
entreat
Definition

verb

 

to plead

Term
comlaisance
Definition

noun

 

friendliness

eagerness to please

Term
incumbent
Definition

noun

 

the holder of an office

Term
repine
Definition

verb

 

ti be dejected esp. to long for something

Term
incredulous
Definition

adj.

 

skeptical, disbelieving

Term
circumspect
Definition

adj

 

careful to consider all consequences

Term
spleen
Definition

noun

 

ill will eap when suppredded and/or released

Term
deference
Definition

noun

 

respectful yielding to a superior

Term
deportment
Definition

noun

 

bearing, manner

Term
arch
Definition

adj.

 

mischievously ironic

Term
propriety
Definition

noun

 

appropriatness

comformity to what is socially acceptable

Term
trepidation
Definition

noun

 

fear or anxiety

Term
misrepresent
Definition

verb

 

to give a false impression if usually with the intent to deceive

Term
propensity
Definition

noun

 

stuon natural tendency or preference

Term
pecuniary
Definition

adj

 

of or pertaining to money

Term
lieu
Definition

noun

 

stead, place

[usualy in lieu of...]

Term
accede
Definition

verb

 

to agree or yield to a request or demand

Term
corroborate
Definition

verb

 

to support with evidence or authority

to confirm

Term
chagrin
Definition

noun

 

annoyance due to embarrassment

Term
consernation
Definition

noun

 

amazement or dismay that hinders or confuses

Term
equivocal
Definition

adj.

 

subject to different interpretaitons, misleading

hard to classify or judge

Term
tumult
Definition

noun

 

disorder, commotion

Term
allay
Definition

verb

 

to calm, relieve, soothe

Term
voluble
Definition

adj.

 

freely talkative

Term
injunction
Definition

noun

 

an order or command

 a legal writ requiring or forbidding someone to do something

Term
querulous
Definition

adj

 

habitually complaining or whining

Term
acquiesce
Definition

verb

 

to accept or submit without opposition

Term
tete-a-tete
Definition

noun

 

a private conversation between two people

Term
impute
Definition

verb

 

to accuse

to blame

Term
petulance
Definition

noun

 

peevishness, irritabilty, ill temper

Term
acrimony
Definition

noun

 

harshness or sharpness if speech or disposition

Term
palliate
Definition

verb

 

to make less serious

to ease

Term
engross
Definition

verb

 

to take the full attention of

to occupy completely

Term
profligate
Definition

adj

 

sunfully pleaseure-seeking

recklessly wasteful

Term
insufferable
Definition

adj.

 

intolerable

unberable

Term
dilatory
Definition

adj

 

intend to delay

tending to procratinate

Term
alleviate
Definition

verb

 

to relieve, lessen

to make more bearable

Term
premeditation
Definition

noun

 

planning beforehand to commit an act

Term
forebearance
Definition

noun

 

tolerance or restraint when provoked

Term
divert
Definition

verb

 

to amuse as relief from worry

to distract

to turn away from

Term
arrears
Definition

noun

 

tardiness in meeting obligations

Term
pleasnatry
Definition

noun

 

a joke

a playful conversation

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