English Honors 10---A Year of Vocabulary in Review 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. abet abhor abridge abstracted abstruse accolade acquiesce acrimonious adulation adversity aesthetic affable affinity agile alacrity aloof altruistic ambiguous ambivalent ameliorate amenable amiable amorphous angular antidote antipathy antiquated antithesis arable archaic arrogant ascend ascendancy ascertain ascetic assuage atrophy audacity augment austere autonomous aversion banal belie benevolence to encourage or to assist (usually an offense against justice or the law to regard with extreme repugnance; to detest utterly; to loathe to shorten, to diminish removed in thought from the immediate situation, lost in thought difficult to understand, recondite, concealed praise, an award to give in, to comply caustic extreme praise or admiration misfortune, unfavorable happening relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art friendly, courteous, amiable a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace prompt and cheerful response apart, indifferent unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others having more than one meaning; unclear, uncertain having contrary feeling or attitudes, uncertain as to course of action to make better, to relieve, to improve open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable friendly, sociable, and congenial; civil and urban shapeless, having no definite form lean, sharp-cornered, gaunt something that relieves the effects of poison a dislike, distaste, or enmity obsolete, out of fashion, no longer usable a direct opposite, a contrast fit for plowing, tillable antiquated, old, out of use overbearingly assuming; insolently proud to move upward, to rise from a lower station domination; growing power to find out definitely; to determine one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury to ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm to waste away, to wither excessive boldness, rashness, daring to make greater or to supplement strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic independent, self-contained strong disinclination, disliking common, ordinary, lacking freshness, hackneyed to contradict, to give a false impression kindness, generosity, charity 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. benign bequeath blasphemous bombastic buoyant burgeon buttress cajole calamity capricious charlatan chimera circumspect clandestine conciliate conflagration contentious contrite corroboration crass credulous culpable cursory daunt dawdle dearth debase debilitate decadent decry defamation deplete depravity deprecate derision desolate despotic didactic diffidence din discern discord discursive disdain disparage disparity dissemination dissuade distend not causing harm, of gently disposition, beneficial to hand down, to give or to leave in a will irreverent, profane using inflated language, pompous capable of floating; cheerful to sprout, to newly emerge a support or prop to persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax, to wheedle a serious event causing distress or misfortune changing suddenly, fickle one who claims to know something that he does not, a quack a fantasy; a horrible creature of the imagination careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent secret to reconcile, to pacify, to renew a friendship a large fire quarrelsome, stirring controversy extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant confirmation coarse, crude, and unrefined believing on slight evidence, gullible deserving blame; guilty superficial, casual, hastily done o intimidate, to dismay to waste time, to spend time idly, to move in a lackadaisical manner a lack, a scarcity to reduce in dignity or quality to weaken, to enfeeble decaying to speak against, to rail against, to disparage act of harming or ruining another's reputation to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval scoffing at, mockery, ridicule deserted, without inhabitant, barren ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical instructive, designed to teach shyness, reserve, unassertiveness loud and discordant noises, cacophony to differentiate from two or more things lack of agreement, tension, strife rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly intense dislike, to treat with scorn or contempt; to reject of unworthy to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner inequality, being unequal in age, rank, or degree the act of spreading widely; scattering to advise against, to talk out of to expand, to swell 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. docile dogmatic dormant duplicity eclectic efface effervescent elucidate emaciated embellish empirical enervation engender enhance enigmatic enmity entreaty ephemeral erudite esoteric estrange ethereal eulogy euphemism euphonious exacerbate exonerate exotic expunge extol extraneous extricate fallow fastidious fatuous ferocity fervid fitful flourish forbearance frivolous furtive fuse garrulous gluttonous gratuitous gregarious guile haughty easily managed, obedient, passive strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner inactive, sleeping double-dealing, hypocrisy coming from a variety of diverse sources to erase, to wear away showing high spirits to make clear, to explain very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wasting away to decorate, to make beautiful with ornamentation based on observation or experiment and not on theory weakness to cause, to produce, to create to make better, to improve mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling absolute hatred a plea, an earnest request lasting a short period of time, fleeting scholarly understood only by a small group or a select few to alienate, to separate heavenly, delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible praise or tribute substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive pleasant or agreeable (sound); dulcet to aggravate, to irritate, to vex to free from blame, obligation, or responsibility; to exculpate foreign, unfamiliar to remove, to erase to praise, to glorify not essential or vital to free, to disentangle inactive, plowed but not sowed reflecting a meticulous or demanding attitude, critical to an extreme foolish, silly in an obnoxious way, inane savagery ardent, burning, impassioned irregular to thrive, to grow well patience, lenience lacking in seriousness or importance secret in an underhanded way, stealthy to mix or to join (usually by melting) talkative, rambling greedy for food and drink given freely, unwarranted sociable and outgoing deceitfulness, duplicity arrogant, excessively proud and vain 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. 183. 184. 185. 186. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. 192. homogeneous humane hyperbole hypocrite hypothesize immutable impecunious impervious impetuous implausible inane incongruity incontrovertible incorrigible indelible indignation indolence induce indulgent industrious ineptness inert infallible infamous ingrate ingratiate innate innocuous inscrutable insipid insolence insularity intractable introspective inundate irascible laconic lament languid laud lethargic levity loathe lucid luxuriant magnanimity malevolence malice melancholy of the same kind kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate obvious exaggeration one who is insincere or deceitful to reach a conclusion based on an assumption or something not proven unchanging without money incapable of being entered or penetrated, not capable of being damaged violent, hasty, rash, impulsive not believable lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly, insipid nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility indisputable incapable of being reformed or improved cannot be removed, washed away or erased anger as a result of something unjust laziness to bring on or to bring about lenient, especially toward oneself skillfully busy or occupied lack of competence or judgment unable to move or to act, sluggish incapable of error having a reputation of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad an ungrateful person to make an effort to gain good favor with someone existing from birth, inborn harmless, producing no injury difficult to understand; mysterious boring and stupid insulting or contemptuous behavior qualities of an island; narrow-mindedness of opinion stubborn, difficult to manage the quality of examining one's own mind or thoughts to flood, to overflow irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner slow, sluggish, listless, weak to praise, to extol sluggish, languid excessive frivolity, flippancy to detest easily understood, mentally sound abundant in growth, very fertile having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit ill will or evil intentions desire to harm others depression of spirits 193. 194. 195. 196. 197. 198. 199. 200. 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 209. 210. 211. 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. 217. 218. 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. 224. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239. 240. 241. meticulous misanthrope miser mitigate morose mundane munificent nefarious nullify oblique obliterate oblivion obscure obsequious ominous opaque opulence ornate ostentatious pacifistic paltry paradoxical paucity pedantry penitent perfunctory perjury petulance piety placate placid plagiarize poignant pompous prattle precarious preclude precocious predilection pretentious procrastinate prodigal profuse proliferation prolific prologue promontory prosaic provincial taking great care a hater of mankind one who lives in wretched circumstance to save and hoard money to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe being sullen or gloomy ordinary, commonplace very generous extremely wicked, evil, vicious to cause not to be in effect, to negate slanting, indirect, evasive devious, misleading to remove all traces of; to do away with; to destroy completely; to cancel state of being forgotten difficult to see, vague overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile threatening not allowing the passage of light, not transparent, hard to understand wealth, affluence abundance excessively decorated showy, pretentious opposed to war or use of force trifling; petty; worthless something that appears false or contradictory but is actually correct scarcity, fewness of number, dearth act of showing off learning in a manner that is needless and unimaginative showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant acting routinely with little interest or care false testimony under oath unreasonable touchiness or irritability devotion and reverence to God to appease or to pacify by making concessions peaceful, calm to steal and to use another's writings as one's own piercing, incisive, and keen exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic meaningless sounds, babble dangerous, risky, not a secure situation to make impossible exceptionally early in development or occurrence preference making an extravagant outward show, self-important to defer action; to delay wasteful, a person given to extravagance extravagantly abundant, flowing freely an increase in number, multiplication abundantly fruitful, marked by a great productivity introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action land or rock projecting into a body of water commonplace, uninspired, banal lacking sophistication, narrow minded 242. 243. 244. 245. 246. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. 261. 262. 263. 264. 265. 266. 267. 268. 269. 270. 271. 272. 273. 274. 275. 276. 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. 285. 286. 287. 288. 289. 290. quiescent rancor raze recant recluse reiterate reprove repudiate reticence revere sated scintillating scrupulous secular serene servile slothful spontaneous squalid static stoic stupefy sublime subtle suffrage summon superfluous surreptitious sycophant symmetry synthesis taciturn tact terse torpid toxic tranquil transient transparent trepidation trivia turbulence vacillating venerate veracity verbose vexation viable vigilant inactive, dormant bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity to completely destroy to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke a person who lives in solitude, a hermit to repeat to scold or to rebuke for a misdeed usually with kindly intent to reject, to disown, to disavow restraint in speech, reluctant to speak to honor, to regard with respect satisfied fully, indulged to excess sparkling, shining, or flashing very principle, very careful and conscientious nonreligious, worldly calm, placid overly submissive lazy, indolent having no external cause, acting on impulse filthy in appearance, sordid having no motion, showing little change a stoical person; not showing passion or feeling, indifference, impassive to dull the sense as to put into a stupor exalted, noble, uplifting delicate, elusive, not obvious right to vote to call together, to send for or to request to appear beyond what is needed or required, an overflow secret, clandestine, stealthy a self-serving flatterer, a brownnoser balanced proportions combing parts into a whole quiet, not verbose a keen sense for what is appropriate or tasteful in delicate situations concise sluggish, inactive, dull poisonous peaceful, calm quickly passing, fleeting quality of being able to be seen through, clear fear, trembling, agitation insignificant matters wild or disturbing activity changing, fluctuating to honor, to revere devotion to the truth wordy, very talkative discomfort or distress capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately very alert, watchful 291. 292. 293. 294. 295. 296. 297. 298. 299. vilify vindicated vindictive virtuoso virulent vivid volatile voluble zeal to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against cleared of accusations or charges revengeful, spiteful one skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished musician, a savant extremely poisonous; hateful bright, distinct, and clear quickly changeable, easily vaporized ability to use words easily, fluent and glib enthusiasm, fervor