Vocabulary Midterm

English 2 Honors with Greene at Los Alamitos High School

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abstemious

restrail from sex or drinking alcohol etc.

besmirch

to dirty, ruin ones reputation

blanket

to cover

castigate

to punish

clangor

a loud noise

comply

to go along with; agree

cow

to make someone afraid

consanguineous

being related (same blood)

dexterously

skilled with hands

divest

to take off

(an emotion or thing ex. jacket)

enmesh

to be tangled up in

equivocal- equivocate

more than one interruption

frugal

frugal (adj), Frugaility (n.)

cheap

gallantry

bravery

sinister

evil, misterious

temperate

mild

brevity

shortness of something

battalion

army

discontent

not content or satistfied

cite

write down

exempt

be excused from something

multitudinous

a lot of something

trifle

something not important

signify

stand for something

folly

mistake

affectation

something wrong or not normal

taint

to spoil

prodigious

have a lot of; lucky

palpable

almost able to be touched or grasped (ex. emotions-love or anger)

vex

to annoy someone

azure

blue (sky or ocean)

trudge

plunge through; walk through

writing

twisting the body in a painful way

falsify

to make something false

allotment

an amount fiven out

buoyancy

to float (buoyant)

sophistry

the art of speaking well

infantry

army

quaint

cute, small, shy

foe

enemy

abrupt

quick change

intuition

gut instinct

meditate

calmness

frigate

boat

traverse

to cross (v.) ex) to traverse a classroom

grievous

needs morning; really bad or sad

voracity

having a gib appetite

indigent

poor (as in money)

cleave

to cut

tremulous

to shake

ostracize

out casted (ostracized-adj) (v. to make an outcast)

annihilation

to kill, get rid of

buxom

curvy

aberration

mutation or bad behavior

surreptitious

secretly; sneakily

glower

sudden look of anger or annoyance (n. or v.)

destitute

lacking something needed or desirable

palatial

relating to a palace, rich and nice

Superfluous

exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

Expound

to set forth, to defend an argument to give a detailed description of

Wretch

to drive out (v.-to puke); miserable person (n.) (Wretched –adj)

patronize

provide support for

Debauch

to make disloyal, to seduce from chastity (v.) (Debauchery-extreme indulgence in sensuality-n.)

Despicable

deserving to be despised

ceaselessly

continuing without an end

emaciate

v. describing process of thinning; unhealthily thin

laconic

never talks but when they do its something important and people respect

repress

to put down by force, to hold in by self control

stupor

a condition of dulled sensibility

scrounge

steal, scavenger or borrow

oblique

not straight foreword (adj)

induce

to call forth or bring about by stimulation

disgruntle

to make ill humored or discontented

onslaught

an especially fierce attack

taper

a slender candle; to get thinner towards the bottom

quixotic

foolish, overly romantic

flank

the fleshy part between the ribs and hip; to threaten the flank as a body of troops

supple

complaint, often to the point of obsequiousness; soft

devout

devoted to a religion or to religious exercises (devotion)

discretion

ability to make responsible decisions (discrete-secretive)

salubrious

healthy (describes a circumstance) (ex. living conditions)

impulsive

having the power of or actually driving or impelling

blunder

to move unsteadily, to make a mistake through stupidity

elusive

tending to evade grasp or pursuit

frantic

mentally deranged or emotionally out of control

happenstance

circumstance that is due to chance

obligatory

mandatory or required

solemn

marked by the invocation of a religious sanction

sterile

lack of germs; can't have babies

wily

crafty, sly

poignant

forces an emotional response (funeral)

assuage

to lessen the pain of something; to make an emotion better

dormant

marked by a suspension of activity (like sleep)

mitigate

(circumstance) to make better or less harsh

factious

stubborn, mean, grumpy

archaic

really old and outdated; ancient

obsolete

no longer in use or usefull

passé

out of style

venerable

made sacred by religious

complaisant

marked by an inclination to oblige (a pushover)

convivial

party or lively atmosphere

derisive

mocking

priggish

(prig) one who offends or irritates to an obnoxious degree; uptight

self-aggrandizing

to make yourself greater; to praise highly

acumen

a talent for something (n.)

despot

one who has total power and rules brutally (despotism)

lavish

expending profusely (v.); extravagant spending (adj)

decry

express strong disapproval of (v.)

bravado

blustering, swaggering conduct (n.) (pretends to be brave when not)

fortitude

a strength of mind that allows a person to encounter danger

plucky

(adj) brave; spirited (pluck-n.)

dearth

scarcity that make dear; inadequate supply of food (n.)

jot

to write briefly (v.); a tiny bit (n.)

sporadic

occurring occasionally

vacillate

to waiver in mind; will or feeling (v.)

chimera

a fire breathing monster, imaginary monster, something unrealistic

depraved

marked by corruption or evil (adj.)

baffle

to defeat or check by confusing

feral

non-domesticated; wild

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