HL IB English Vocabulary
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vickyfoing on September 6, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 frugal | sparse, saving |
| miserly | hoarding |
| tacit | unwritten, unspoken |
| metafiction | stories within stories |
| incipit | beginning of text or story |
| potent | powerful, mighty |
| polysemic | many meanings |
| foreground | things brought to the front |
| marginalize | push aside |
| narrative gaps | things left out |
| intrinsic | basic, inborn, belonging to us |
| indispensable | necessary, essential |
| prosaically | commonplace or dull |
| decadent | corrupt, decaying |
| bespectacled | wearing eyeglasses |
| imperative | necessary, required, unavoidable |
| portentous | momentous, marvelous |
| cohesive | all together |
| coherent | understandable |
| cogent | believable, credible |
| banal | not much flavor |
| mundane | ordinary |
| idiom | a peculiar, untranslatable expression |
| magnanimous | noble, generous in spirit |
| meritocracy | a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects |
| cower | show submission or fear |
| moniker | a distinctive name or nickname |
| pragmatic | practical |
| auspicious | favorable, fortunate |
| prudent | careful |
| malaise | unease |
| anachronism | something out of place in time |
| pedestrian | lacking wit or imagination |
| nonchalant | casual |
| ennui | boredom |
| enigma | puzzle |
| colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language, conversational |
| staid | sober, serious, quiet |
| furtive | stealthy, secretive |
| ubiquitous | being present everywhere at once |
| hirsute | having or covered with hair |
| overt | open, obvious |
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