4th Quarter Vocab Review - Honors English 10
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 indenture | formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt |
| laity | everyone except the clergy |
| shroud | burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped |
| gentility | those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel |
| levity | lightness of manner |
| oblation | a religious offering |
| propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| catalyst | something that causes an important event to happen |
| duplicity | intentional deceit in speech or conduct |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| bereft | deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
| craven | cowardly |
| sordid | foul and run-down and repulsive |
| execrate | curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment |
| wry | (adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous |
| libidinous | lustful, lascivious |
| transcendental | of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual about the empirical and material |
| mendicant | practicing beggary |
| ascetic | practices self denial as spiritual discipline |
| lucrative | profitable |
| evince | show clearly |
| redress | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil |
| presage | a sign of something about to happen |
| cajole | to persuade with false promises and flattery |
| drone | stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen |
| contrite | thoroughly remorseful and repentant of one's sins |
| avid | (often followed by 'for') ardently or excessively desirous |
| exhortation | a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action |
| tribulation | an affliction, trouble, or difficult experience |
| malfeasance | wrongful conduct by a public official |
| amity | friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
| offal | garbage; waste parts |
| venial | easily excused or forgiven |
| sinuous | curved or curving in and out |
| insatiable | impossible to satiate or satisfy |
| garish | glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way |
| autonomy | self-government, political control |
| anathema | a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication |
| metaphysical | highly abstract and over-theoretical |
| meticulous | marked by precise accordance with details |
| abashed | (adj., part.) embarrassed, ashamed, or nonplussed |
| quiescent | being quiet or still or inactive |
| recalcitrant | marked by stubborn resistance to authority |
| suffuse | to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light |
| rebuff | reject outright and bluntly |
| piquant | stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative |
| reconnoitre | explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody |
| wallow | a puddle where animals go to wallow |
| circumvent | beat through cleverness and wit |
| enervated | lacking strength or vigor |
| truncheon | a short stout club used primarily by policemen |
| errant | straying from the right course or from accepted standards |
| zenith | the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected |
| restitution | the act of restoring something to its original state |
| partisan | devoted to a cause or party |
| gait | a person's manner of walking |
| demarcation | the boundary of a specific area |
| lassitude | Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
| cognet | forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point |
| calamity | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
| stoic | seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain |
| candid | openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness |
| propitious | favorably disposed |
| indiscreet | not wise or judicious; imprudent, as in speech or action |
| deference | courteous regard for people's feelings |
| entreaty | earnest or urgent request |
| prudent | wise, careful, cautious |
| brevity | shortness |
| rudimentary | being or involving basic facts or principles |
| sequester | set apart from others |
| nonchalance | the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care |
| prevaricate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| contemplate | to look at or think about carefully; to consider as a possibility |
| consummate | perfect and complete in every respect |
| whetstone | a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives |
| imprecation | a curse |
| condescension | a feeling of superiority |
| obeisance | a bow or similar gesture expressing deep respect |
| rectify | make right or correct |
| expatiate | (v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely |
| intrinsic | belonging to a thing by its very nature |
| uncouth | awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly |
| bucolic | a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life |
| sublime | exalted, noble, uplifting |
| wistful | full of longing or unfulfilled desire |
| ominous | threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
| nebulous | hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
| placid | calm, peaceful |
| heretic | a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
| aesthetic | (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful |
| permeate | penetrate mutually or be interlocked |
| reciprocity | mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges |
| tremulous | trembling |
| advocate | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
| renunciation | rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| pander | to exploit weaknesses of others; to cater to the vices of others |
| profundity | intellectual depth |
| languor | a feeling of lack of interest or energy |
| deprecate | belittle |
| attenuate | become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude |
| quail | cower; lose heart |
| harangue | a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture |
| ennui | boredom |
| accoutrement | an accessory item of dress or equipment |
| coquette | flirt |
| scrutinize | To examine closely |
| contiguous | very close or connected in space or time |
| modulate | adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of |
| reproach | express criticism towards |
| ramification | the act of branching out or dividing into branches |
| churlish | rude and boorish |
| rubicund | inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life |
| stolid | (adj.) not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive |
| articulation | the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible |
| habiliment | clothes associated with a specific occasion or purpose |
| mendacity | the tendency to be untruthful |
| perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| traverse | travel across |
| profuse | produced or growing in extreme abundance |
| prostrate | throw down flat, as on the ground |
| profligate | a recklessly extravagant consumer |
| inherent | present at birth but not necessarily hereditary |
| ingenuous | innocent, simple; frank, sincere |
| clandestine | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods |
| vermilion | a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge |
| perspicacious | keen; mentally sharp |
| conscientious | guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong |
| sensuous | giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin |
| pervasive | spreading throughout |
| disparage | to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner |
| contingency | a possible event or occurrence or result |
| discourse | talk or hold forth formally about a topic |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| titillate | excite pleasurably |
| disconcert | (v.) to confuse; to disturb the composure of |
| rumination | think deeply about something |
| evanescence | the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight |
| discern | detect with the senses |
| stratum | one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism) |
| Penury | a state of extreme poverty or destitution |
| escarpment | a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament; composure |
| tete-a-tete | head to head |
| derogatory | insulting or intended to insult |
| discomfiture | frustration or disappointment |
| laissez faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
| amplitude | greatness of magnitude |
| beatitude | a state of supreme happiness |
| acclivity | an upward slope or grade (as in a road) |
| onerous | troublesome or oppressive; burdensome |
| copse | a thicket of small trees or bushes |
| glib | fluent in an insincere manner; offhand; casual |
| maladroit | clumsy |
| genuflect | bend the knees and bow in a servile manner |
| undulate | move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion |
| somnolent | sleepy, drowsy; inducing sleep |
| spurious | not genuine, not true, not valid |
| reticulate | divide so as to form a network |
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