English IV: Fall Semester Exam - Vocabulary
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lexinfriedman on December 9, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lustrous | Shining or gleaming without sparkling |
| Oculist | A doctor who specializes in treatment of the eye |
| Pejorative | Downgrading, disparaging |
| Pontificate | To speak in a self-important manner |
| Pragmatic | Practical |
| Proscribe | To denounce |
| Reparation | Compensation to one who has suffered |
| Ruse | Cleaver trick |
| Sinecure | An office or position requiring little work |
| Soliloquy | A speech or dramatic monologue made to ones self to revel though |
| Submissive | Yielding or surrendering oneself to the will of another |
| Threadbare | Very worn |
| Tidings | Information or news |
| Itinerary | Proposed route of journey |
| Lineage | Line of descent of tradition |
| Metaphysical | Highly abstract or abstruse |
| Noncombatant | Civilian |
| Peal | A loud ringing noise |
| Phalanx | A close arrangement of people or things |
| Pneumatic | Pertaining to air or gas |
| Propinquity | Nearness |
| Remit | To send or to transmit |
| Rout | Ti gouge out or to make a furrow in |
| Shrill | High-pitched or piercing |
| Strife | Vigorous or bitter conflict |
| Upshot | Outcome |
| Analogous | Alike or similar in certain respects that permits one to draw an analogy |
| Baseness | Thee quality of lacking higher values |
| Carnal | Marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions |
| Convalescence | The gradual recovery of health and strength after illness |
| Derivative | Something that comes from another thing |
| Dub | To honor with a new title |
| Extrapolation | Inference or prediction based on past data |
| Fraught | Involving,; full of; accompanied by |
| Hermetic | Airtight |
| Incrustation | Being covered with a crust, state of being encrusted |
| Inextricable | Not able to be disentangled |
| A capella | Without accompaniment by an instrument |
| Aberration | The act of straying from the right or usual course |
| Anecdote | The short story of an interesting or amusing incident |
| Cherubic | Innocent, wholesome, angelic |
| Coquette | A women who flirts with men without sincere affection |
| Cosmetology | Use of cosmetics in treating the hair, skin or nails |
| Despoil | To take possessions by force |
| Dulcet | Pleasing to the ear |
| Facile | Easy, achieved with little difficulty |
| Fissure | A narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts |
| Flaunt | To show off, to display ostentatiously |
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