Quizlet Academic English 10 Vocab

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  1. Ambulatory: walking or moving; alterable
  2. Amphibious: able to function on land and in water
  3. Apex: highest point; summit
  4. Apparition: unused or unexpected sight
  5. Appendage: something attached to a larger item
  6. Archetype: the original pattern or model
  7. Bellicose: warlike; quarrelsome
  8. Billet-doux: a love letter
  9. Bizarre: out of the ordinary; eccentric; freakish
  10. Bombast: pretentious
  11. Bonafied: made in good faith; genuine
  12. Boudoir: a women's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room
  13. Buttress: to support or prop
  14. Carcinogen: a substance that causes cancer
  15. Carnivore: a flesh-eating animal
  16. Caucus: a closed meeting of members of a political party of faction
  17. Celestial: heavenly
  18. Comatose: unconscious; inactive
  19. Conflagration: a large, destructive fire
  20. Contretemps: an embarrassing incident
  21. Conveyance: a means of transporting; a vehicle
  22. Corona: a halo of light around the sun or moon
  23. Cuisine: food, style of cooking
  24. Decanter: a vessel used to receive liquid poured from another
  25. Deciduous: shedding at a certain stage
  26. Dexterous: skillful with the hands; mentally adroit
  27. Distaff: pertaning to females; a stick that holds wool or flax for spinning
  28. Doggerel: loose, irregular verse, inferior poetry
  29. Dormant: sleeping; inactive
  30. Echelon: one in a series of levels of command
  31. Effervescent: bubbly; lively
  32. Equilibrium: a state of balance
  33. Exodus: a mass departure
  34. Expletive: an exclamatory word or phrase, often obscene or profane
  35. Fecund: fruitful; productive
  36. Flotilla: a fleet of small ships
  37. Formidable: frightening, dreadful; awe-inspiring
  38. Germinate: to begin to grow; sprout
  39. Googol: the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros, equal to 10 to the 100th power
  40. Gyrate: to revolve around a point or axis
  41. Holocaust: widespread destruction, especially by fire
  42. Impropriety: improper conduct; bad manners
  43. Incarcerate: to put in prison
  44. Irreparable: cannot be repaired
  45. Juxtapose: to place side by side
  46. Libation: a beverage; archaic; the act of pouring out a liquid of a religious offering
  47. Lineage: descent in a direct line from an ancestor
  48. Lugubrious: exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
  49. Luminary: one who is notable in a particular field
  50. Maelstrom: a powerful whirlpool, turmoil
  51. Masticate: to chew; to soften by crushing
  52. Metamorphosis: a transformation; a marked alteration
  53. Monolith: a single large stone, often in the form or a column or monument
  54. Nadir: the lowest point
  55. Nocturnal: pertaining to the night; active at night
  56. Nodule: a small lump
  57. Obdurate: hard; unmoved by persuasion
  58. Oscillate: to swing back and forth
  59. Paraphernalia: personal belongings; equipment
  60. Pariah: an outcast
  61. Parochial: relating to a church parish; limited in scope
  62. Penurious: stingy; extremely poor
  63. Plummet: to fall or plunge straight downward
  64. Pogrom: an organized persecution or massacre
  65. Polyglot: using several languages
  66. Posh: elegant; fashionable
  67. Potable: fit to drink
  68. Progeny: offsprings; descendents
  69. Promontory: a high point of land or rock projecting into water
  70. Prostrate: lying flat; stretched out with face on the ground
  71. Pulchritude: physical beautiful
  72. Ravenous: hungry; very eager
  73. Recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint
  74. Remorse: regret for having done wrong
  75. Rendezvous: an appointment; a meeting place
  76. Replicate: to duplicate; to repeat
  77. Salutary: promoting health; benefitual
  78. Satiated: fully fed; fully satisfied
  79. Satornine: gloomy; surly
  80. Sediment: matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
  81. Sinewy: strong and firm; tough
  82. somnambulist: sleepwalker
  83. Symposium: a meeting to discuss a particular topic
  84. Tantalize: to tease by keeping something out of reach
  85. Titanic: huge; powerful
  86. Truculent: savage; fierce
  87. Truncated: cut off; shortened
  88. Valor: courage; bravery
  89. Votary: a person devoted to something
  90. Xenophobia: fear or hatred of strangers