Engilsh IV Honors Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Admonish; admonishment (n); admonition (n) | (v) to warn or give advice, usually in a friendly, earnest way |
| Affront; Affront (n); Affronted (adj) | (v) to insult, usually in a direct encounter |
| Arduous; Arduously (adv) | (adj) marked by great difficulty or effort |
| Assimilate; Assimilation (n); Assimilated (adj); Assimilability (n) | (v) to take in, to understand thoroughly |
| Candid; Candor (n); candidly (adv); Candidness (n) | (adj) sincere, honest |
| Construe | (v) to understand or interpret the sense of something; to infer or deduce |
| Disconcert; disconcerting (adj); disconcertingly (adv) | (v) to disturb the composure of a person |
| Disdain; disdainful (adj); disdainfully (adv) | (n) a feeling of contempt or scorn |
| Docile; docilely (adv); docility (n) | (adj) easily taught, managed, or disciplined |
| Dubious; dubiously (adv), dubiosity (n); dubiety (n); dubiousness (n); dubitable (adj); indubitable (adj) | (adj) of questionable or uncertain nature |
| Entail; entailed (adj); entailment (n); entailer (n) | (v) to involve as a necessary condition |
| Esoteric | (adj) understood only by the specially initiated; limited to a small circle |
| Ethereal; ethereally (adv); etherealness (n) | (adj) being unusually delicate and refined; heavenly |
| Evince; evincible (adj) | (v) to display clearly (especially a quality or a feeling) |
| Fathom; fathom (n); fathomable (adj); fathomless (adj) | (v) to come to an understanding |
| Feasible; feasibly (adv); feasibility (n) | (adj) capable of being done; reasonable |
| Feign; feigned (adj); feint (n) | (v) to create a false appearance |
| Fraught | (adj) bearing promise of menace, full of, emotionally charged |
| Poignant; poignantly (adv); poignancy (n) | (adj) painfully or deeply affecting the feelings |
| Precarious; precariously (adv); precariousness (n) | (adj) dependent on conditions that are unknown or uncertain, often involving an element of danger |
| Pretext | (n) a reason or appearance assumed in order to hide the true motive or condition |
| Prolific; prolifically (adv); prolificness (n); prolificacy (n); proliferate (v); proliferous (adj) | (adj) highly productive or creative (of ideas, fruit, or young) |
| Purport; purported (adj); purportedly (adv) | (v) to give the impression of being; to claim or profess |
| Recourse | (n) a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| Refute; refutable (adj); refutation (n); irrefutable (adj) | (v) to prove false |
| Subtle; subtleness (n); subtly (adv); subtlety (n) | (adj) not obvious; refined, elusive |
| Succumb | (v) to yield to overpowering force or appeal; to die |
| Vindicate; vindication (n); vindicator (n); vindicative (adj) | (v) to justify, support, or defend against objections or assault |
| Vindictive; Vindictively (adv); vindictiveness (n) | (adj) marked by a desire for revenge |
| Wary; wariness (n); warily (adv) | (adj) characterized by caution |
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