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English 11 Vocabulary
Semester 1 Final Exam CH
70
English
11th Grade
01/13/2007

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Term
admonition
Definition
NOUN

a gentle or friendly reproof

warning against fault or oversight
Term
anachronism
Definition
NOUN an error in chronology chronologically out of place[image]
Term
asinine
Definition
ADJECTIVE

extremely or utterly foolish
Term
askance
Definition
ADVERB with disaproval or distrust with a sideglance obliquely, scornfully [image]
Term
augur
Definition
Verb to fortell especially with omens [image]
Term
austere
Definition
ADJECTIVE

stern or cold in appearance

Simple, un adorned

Somber, grave, ascetic
Term
bawdy
Definition
ADJECTIVE

obscene, lewd

boisterously indecent
Term
cavalier
Definition
ADJECTIVE

Debonair

given to off hand and often disdainful dissisal of important matters
Term
Chagrin
Definition
NOUN VERB
distress caused by humiliaton

dissapointment
Term
Chide
Definition
Verb

to voice disapproval

scold
Term
coerce
Definition
VERB

to restrain or dominate by force
Term
consternation
Definition
NOUN amazement dismay that hinders into confusion [image]
Term
Crony
Definition
NOUN

close friend
Term
delineate
Definition
VERB

to map out

to indicate or represent by with lines

to mark outline off

to discripe with detail
Term
disconsolate
Definition
ADJECTIVE

cheerless

dejected
Term
dissimulate
Definition
VERB

to hide under false appearance
Term
duplicity
Definition
NOUN

contradition

doubleness

twofold
Term
earnest
Definition
ADJECTIVE

grave importances

intense state of mind
Term
edifice
Definition
NOUN

building

large structure
Term
efficacy
Definition
noun

to produce product
Term
egalitarianism
Definition
NOUN

belief in human equality
Term
eminent
Definition
ADJECTIVE

prominent

juting out

readily precieved or noted
Term
exodus
Definition
NOUN

mass departure
Term
fervent
Definition
ADJECTIVE

very hot, glowing

intense feeling, zelous
Term
fetid
Definition
ADJECTIVE

heavy smell
Term
harbinger
Definition
NOUN

one that pioneers

forshadows what is to come
Term
imbue
Definition
VERB

to tinge or dye

endow
Term
inauspicious
Definition
ADJECTIVE

not favorable
Term
inexorable
Definition
ANDJECTIVE

relentless

not able to be changed
Term
inscrutable
Definition
ADJECTIVE

mysterious

not investigated
Term
magnanimous
Definition
ADJECTIVE

couragous spirit
Term
insatiable
Definition
ADJECTIVE

incapable of being satisfied
Term
insidious
Definition
ADJECTIVE

seductive

harmful but enticing
Term
intrinsic
Definition
ADJECTIVE

belonging to essential nature of things
Term
misnomer
Definition
NOUN

misnaming of a person on a leagal instrument
Term
mollify
Definition
VERB

to soothe in temper or dispostion

to appease
Term
mutablity
Definition
NOUN

state of being prone to change
Term
nonchalant
Definition
ADJECTIVE

indifference
Term
palatable
Definition
ADJECTIVE

agreeable in taste
Term
palpable
Definition
ADJECTIVE

capable of being felt

tangalbe
Term
prate
Definition
VERB

chatter
Term
peremptory
Definition
AdJECTIVE

putting an end too

not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply
Term
piquant
Definition
ADJECTIVE

agreeable to the palate, lively arch charm
Term
propensity
Definition
NOUN

intense inclination or preference
Term
pulchritude
Definition
NOUN

physical beauty
Term
ramification
Definition
NOUN branch or off shoot consequesnce [image]
Term
recalcitrant
Definition
ADJECTIVE

restrain

difficult to manage

resistant
Term
puport
Definition
NOUN

meaning conveyed / implied

VERB

claim
Term
recompence
Definition
VERB/ NOUN

to pay for

to compensate
Term
resilience
Definition
NOUN

the capibility to recover from restraint
Term
repugnance
Definition
NOUN

contradictory or inconsisant
Term
reticent
Definition
ADJECTIVE

reserved

reluctant
Term
sagacity
Definition
NOUN

the quality of being keen
Term
salient
Definition
ADJECTIVE

jumping, moving be leaps

beyound surface level

prominent
Term
sardonic
Definition
ADJECTIVE

skeptically humorous
Term
sublime
Definition
ADJECTIVE

grand, inspiring awe

elevated quality
Term
succor
Definition
NOUN

relief, aid, help
Term
succor
Definition
NOUN relief, aid, help [image]
Term
tenacious
Definition
ADJECTIVE not easily pulled apart [image]
Term
timorous
Definition
ADJECTIVE fearful timid [image]
Term
trancend
Definition
VERB

to rise above

triumph
Term
travail
Definition
NOUN VERB

work

toil

to work hard
Term
trepidation
Definition
NOUN

apprehension
Term
tumultuous
Definition
ADJECTIVE

turbulent uprising

aggitated
Term
ubiquity
Definition
NOUN

omnipressence
Term
undulate
Definition
VERB

to forn in movies of waves

fluctuate
Term
usurp
Definition
VERB

to seize and hold

to take place by force
Term
virulent
Definition
ADJECTIVE

malignant

rapid or severe and destructive course
Term
venerable
Definition
ADJECTIVE

repect through age or history
Term
wizen
Definition
to become dry and shrunken
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