MICDS Grade 11 Second Semester Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abate | decrease in force or intensity |
| accrue | to accumulate or be added periodically; grow |
| acrimonious | caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speach, or behavior |
| Affectation | an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed |
| apparition | a ghostly figure |
| blatant | completely obvious or conspicuous, possibly offensive |
| callow | immature, lacking sophistication |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist, helpful |
| contemptuous | showing distain or scorn |
| contrive | devise or plan, sometimes with difficulty |
| deleterious | harmful or injurious, destructive |
| dilatory | intended to cause delay |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic, either with order, or without.... yes it means both |
| ectoplasm | emanation from a spirit, or the stuff outside a cell |
| surfeit | an over abundant supply |
| Egregious | outragious in a bad way |
| elicit | to draw forth or bring out |
| Epitome | a typical ideal example |
| exude | to display conspicuously |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| fetter | something that confines, restraint |
| fractious | unruley, redily angered |
| hauteur | arogance |
| hiatus | a break, rupture in time |
| imperceptible | suddle, slight, or gradual |
| impetuous | pertaining to rash action or emotion, impulsive |
| impregnable | unable to advance, or capture, or proceed. |
| incredulous | unwilling to accept what is offered as true, skepticle |
| ingratiate | to gain faver or acceptance with effort |
| candor | unreserved honesty, sincerety |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion; a hint |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition |
| interpose | to place in an intervening position; in between |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke or change |
| jaded | dulled by experience or by surfeit; fatigued by work |
| languid | listless, weak, slow |
| laudable | worthy of praise |
| fortuitous | occuring by chance, lucky, fortunate |
| iota | a small amount |
| mitigate | to make less severe of painful; alleviate |
| novice | a beginner; noob |
| obtrusive | forward in manner or conduct |
| odium | intense hatred or dislike |
| omnibus | pertaining to multiple things |
| peremptory | admitting of no contradiction; expressive of urgency or command |
| perfidy | deliberatly faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
| permeable | penetrable |
| poignant | painfully affecting the feelings, deeply affecting |
| precipitate | to bring about abruptly |
| privy | admitted as one sharing in a secret, someone who is aware |
| prolific | marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity |
| prosaic | dull, unimaginative |
| proximity | closeness |
| punctilious | strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions |
| pungent | sharp smell; to the point |
| querulous | full of complaints |
| reprobate | a depraved, unprincipled or wicked person |
| reprove | express disapproval of; to scold or correct with kind intent |
| revelation | something revealed or disclosed |
| sabbatical | any extended period of leave from ones customary work |
| sepulchral | funeral, mortuary |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep; relating to sleepiness |
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, and spirit |
| subterfuge | an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something |
| surmise | to imagine or infer on slight grounds |
| swank | pretentiously stylish |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; weak |
| transient | lasting or staying only a short time |
| turgid | swollen, inflated, overblown. pompous |
| vapid | dull or tedious; having lost life, sharpness, or flavor |
| verbose | characterized by the use of many or too many words |
| vicarious | felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically wounded, open to attack or damage |
| wheedle | to gain or get by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts |
| winsome | innocently charming |
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