9th Grade Vocabulary List 1
WORD
1. Adulterate
2. Augment
3. Bereft
4. Disparage
5. Dour
6. Encapsulate
7. Fortitude
8. Insidious
9. Intimate
10. Opulent
11. Ostensible
12. Pliable
13. Proscribe
14. Recede
15. Reiterate
16. Remittance
17. Sophistry
18. Stolid
19. Tentative
20. Vernacular
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-to corrupt or make worse by addition of something of lesser value
-to make large or increase
-deprived of; made unhappy through a loss
-express a negative opinion which often results in a diminished value
-stern, unyielding, gloomy, or ill-humored
-to enclose in
-courage in facing difficulty
-intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous
-a hint or indirect suggestion
-wealthy, luxurious, ample, grandiose
-of or related to motives or facts that are apparent but not necessarily real or true
-easily bent; flexible; easily influenced
-command against
-move back or retreat
-to say again or repeat
-payment
-elaborate and eloquent but logically invalid arguments often intended to deceive
-not easily moved mentally or emotionally; unresponsive
-experimental in nature; uncertain; hesitant
-common language; everyday speech; often related to a particular locale
9th Grade Vocabulary List 2
WORD
1. Abdicate
2. Blight
3. Blithe
4. Ephemeral
5. Fervid
6. Fetid
7. Flag
8. Florid
9. Glower
10. Gullible
11. Irascible
12. Ignominy
13. Lament
14. Monastic
15. Nominal
16. Nuance
17. Pathology
18. Sedition
19. Specious
20. Tawdry
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-to give up a position, a right, or power
-an affliction, destroying element, or disease
-joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought
-lasting a short time
-intensely emotional
-z
-to decline in vigor, strength, or interest
-excessively decorated or embellished
-to glare at or stare angrily or intensely at
-easily deceived
-easily made angry
-public shame or disgrace
-to express sorrow or grief
-extremely plain or secluded
-existing in name only; negligible
-a subtle expression of meaning or quality
- foul smelling or putrid
-behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder
-deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
-cheap, gaudy, or showy
9th Grade Vocabulary List 3
WORD
1. Austere
2. Banal
3. Belfry
4. Chauvinist
5. Corroborate
6. Crescendo
7. Dissemble
8. Emulate
9. Expurgate
10. Fecund
11. Frugality
12. Grovel
13. Guile
14. Hegemony
15. Luminous
16. Nascent
17. Parley
18. Sanguine
19. Sportive
20. Stratagem
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
-predictable, clichéd, boring
-a bell tower; a room in which a bell is hung
-someone prejudiced in favor of the group to which he or she belongs
-to support with evidence
-steadily increasing in volume, force, or pitch to a terminal peak
-to present a false appearance; to disguise one’s real intentions or character
-to copy; to try to equal or excel
-to censor or edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
-fertile, fruitful, or productive
-tending to be thrifty or cheap
-to humble oneself in a demeaning way
-deceit or trickery
-the domination of one state or group over its allies
-bright, brilliant, glowing
-starting to develop or coming into existence
-discuss, usually between enemies
-ruddy, cheerfully optimistic
-frolicsome, playful
-a trick designed to deceive or to gain advantage over
9th Grade Vocabulary List 4
WORD
1. Assuage
2. Audacious
3. Circumspect
4. Condone
5. Desiccate
6. Diatribe
7. Dogmatic
8. Droll
9. Eloquent
10. Fallow
11. Furtive
12. Lampoon
13. Malinger
14. Orotund
15. Reticent
16. Sardonic
17. Sully
18. Surfeit
19. Verdant
20. Vernal
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-to make something unpleasant less severe; to reduce severity
-fearless and daring
-cautious; aware of potential consequences
-to overlook, harden, or disregard
-to dry out thoroughly
-an abusive, condemnatory speech
-dictatorial in one’s opinion
-amusing in a wry, subtle way
-persuasive and moving especially in speech
-dormant; unused
-secret or stealthy
-to ridicule usually with satire
-to evade responsibility
-pompous
-silent or reserved
-cynical; scornfully mocking
-to varnish or taint
-an excessive amount
-green with vegetation; inexperienced
-related to spring, youth, or freshness
9th Grade Vocabulary List 5
WORD
1. Advocate
2. Belabor
3. Complaisance
4. Corpulent
5. Debut
6. Effectual
7. Filibuster
8. Galvanized
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Impropriety
Minutiae
Ostracism
Peccadillo
Rent
Ribald
Solace
Tare
Torpid
Undermined
Virulence
Vivacity
DEFINITION & NOTES
-one that pleads the cause of another
-to explain or insist on excessively
-disposition to please or comply
-having a large bulky body
-a first appearance or formal entrance into society
-producing or able to produce a desired result
-the use of tactics to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative assembly
-subjected to the action of an electric current for the purpose of stimulating
physiologically
-an improper or indecorous act or remark
-a minor detail
-exclusion by general consent
-a slight offense
-synonymous to the past tense of tear
-crude, offensive
-to comfort in grief or misfortune
-a weed of grain in fields; an undesirable element
-lacking in energy or vigor
-weakened insidiously or secretly
-extreme bitterness or malignity of temper
-the quality of state of being lively in temper, conduct, or spirit
9th Grade Vocabulary List 6
WORD
1. Confer
2. Denounce
3. Dispatch
4. Dispensation
5. Edifice
6. Flippant
7. Gerontocracy
8. Idyll
9. Inefficacious
10. Irradiate
11. Opaque
12. Quixotic
13. Superlative
14. Tyro
15. Unfrock
16. Unscathed
17. Vicarious
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18. Whet
19. Whittle
20. Wizen
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-to compare views or take counsel
-to pronounce to be blameworthy or evil
-to send off or away with promptness or speed
-a general state or ordering of things
-a large or massive structure
-lacking proper respect or seriousness
-rule by elders
-a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes
-lacking the power to produce a desired effect
-to cast rays of light upon
-hard to understand or explain
-foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
-of very high quality
-a beginner in learning
-defrock: remove from a position of honor or privilege
-wholly unharmed; not injured
-performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or
advantage of another
-to make keen or more acute
-to reduce, remove, or destroy gradually
-to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or failing vitality
9th Grade Vocabulary List 7
WORD
1. Approbation
2. Augury
3. Coddle
4. Effuse
5. Erudite
6. Gaunt
7. Imprecate
8. Lag
9. Lucid
10. Neologism
11. Paean
12. Prattle
13. Refute
14. Seminal
15. Sinewy
16. Stinting
17. Stratagem
18. Synapse
19. Usurp
20. Xenophobe
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-an act of approving formally or officially
-divination from auspices or omens
-to treat with extreme or excessive care or kindness
-to flow out
-having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying
-excessively thin and angular
-to invoke evil on
-to stay or fall behind
-clear to the understanding
-a newly invented word, usage, or phrase
-a work that praises or honors its subject
-to say in an unaffected or childish manner
-to prove wrong by argument or evidence
-containing or contributing the seeds of later development
-tough, stringy
-sparing or frugal
-a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end
-the point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another
-to take or make use of without right
-one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin
9th Grade Vocabulary List 8
WORD
1. Accede
2. Accession
3. Comity
4. Corporeal
5. Fervor
6. Fiasco
7. Illusory
8. Kindle
9. Libel
10. Licentious
11. Limpid
12. Marsupial
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Milieu
Pommel
Prolixity
Quail
Runic
Salvo
Stoke
Tremulous
DEFINITION & NOTES
-to express approval or give consent
-increase by something added
-friendly social atmosphere
-having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body
-intensity of feeling or expression
-a complete failure
-based on or producing illusion; deceptive
-to stir up
-a written or oral statement that unjustly attacks a person’s character or reputation
-lacking legal or moral restraints
-marked by transparency
-any of an order of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums,
and related animals
-the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops
-a word used to refer to a knob on a sword or a saddle
-the condition of being long or drawn out
-to give way or recoil in dread or terror
-having some secret or mysterious meaning
-a means of alleviating one’s conscience
-to poke or stir up
-exceedingly sensitive; easily shaken or disordered
9th Grade Vocabulary List 9
WORD
1. Allocate
2. Aphoristic
3. Arrant
4. Chimera
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Deteriorate
Didactic
Disconsolate
Estuary
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Gradgrind
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Indigenous
Liege
Optimize
Penchant
Proponents
Ravage
Stimulate
Trinket
Vituperate
DEFINITION & NOTES
-to set apart for a special purpose; designate
-in the form of a tersely stated truth or opinion
-utter; complete
-something consisting of diverse construction (note the word’s origin in Greek
mythology)
-to become impaired in quality, function, or condition
-involving or characterized by instruction
-dejected, downcast, unhappy
-a passage of water where a river current meets the tide
-something that is likely to cause objection; may mean offensive
-a person who is obsessed with minutiae and formalities
-a strong, persistent desire
-originating in and characteristic of a particular region
-someone who is faithful and loyal
-to cause something to use its full potential
-a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something
-a person who advocates a particular position or idea
-to have a violent destructive effect
-to increase or encourage the level of response
-a small ornament or thing of little value
-to blame or insult someone in strong or violent language
9th Grade Vocabulary List 10
WORD
1. Accolade
2. Apothecary
3. Askance
4. Blunderbuss
5. Burnish
6. Cognitive
7. Concupiscence
8. Coterie
9. Debilitating
10. Epigram
11. Hinder
12. Impertinent
13. Pariah
14. Probate
15. Recumbent
16. Recuperate
17. Stifle
18. Tendentious
19. Torturous
20. Urban
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-a mark of acknowledgement; award
-one who prepares and sells drugs for medicinal purposes
-with disapproval or distrust
-a blundering person
-to polish
-of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity
-strong desire
-an intimate and often exclusive group with a unifying common interest or purpose
-impairing the strength of
-a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying
-to make slow or difficult the progress of
-given to or characterized by insolent rudeness
-one that is despised or rejected
-the judicial determination of the validity of a will
-suggestive of repose
-to regain a former state or condition
To withhold from circulation or expression
-marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
-painfully difficult or slow
-of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
9th Grade Vocabulary List 11
WORD
1. Brine
2. Cauterize
3. Chattel
4. Decoy
5. Desecration
6. Dilapidated
7. Enigma
8. Extradite
9. Feasible
10. Feckless
11. Objective
12. Ruminate
13. Sage
14. Sere
15. Sporadic
16. Stevedore
17. Torrid
18. Upbraid
19. Weighty
20. Whelp
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-water saturated with salt; the water of a salt sea or lake
-to sear with a cautery or caustic; to make insensible
-an item of property
-someone or something used to draw attention away from another
-an act or instance of treating disrespectfully, irreverently, or outrageously
-decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse
-something hard to understand or explain
-to deliver up an alleged criminal from one authority (as a state or country) to another
-capable of being done or carried out
-weak, ineffective; worthless, irresponsible
-not influenced by personal feelings or opinions; unbiased
-to engage in contemplation
-wise through reflection and experience
-being dried and withered
-occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
-one who works at or is responsible for loading and unloading ships in port
-giving off intense heat
-to reproach or criticize severely
-of much importance or consequence
-a creature characterized by youth or inexperience, normally used in reference to dogs or
humans
9th Grade Vocabulary List 12
WORD
1. Adversity
2. Aesthetic
3. Autumnal
4. Bight
5. Bombastic
6. Comeliness
7. Digress
8. Fastidious
9. Fringe
10. Frugality
11. Insatiable
12. Interdict
13. Meet
14. Opprobrium
15. Peripatetic
16. Prostrate
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Ramble
Stygian
Umbrage
Vexation
DEFINITION & NOTES
-a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty
-having to do with what is beautiful
-of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn
-a bend in a coast forming an open bay
-marked by or given to pretentious inflated speech or writing; pompous, overblown
-the condition of being pleasing and wholesome in appearance
-to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument
-having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please
-something that is marginal or additional to some activity, process, or subject
-the quality of being prudent in the use of resources
-incapable of being satisfied
-a prohibitory decree
-(not in the rendezvous sense); fitting, appropriate
-something that brings disgrace; contempt, reproach
-pedestrian; itinerant
-lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward; may indicate reverence or
submission
-to move aimlessly from place to place
-relating to the river Styx; extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
-a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
-a cause of trouble
9th Grade Vocabulary List 13
WORD
1. Adamant
2. Contiguous
3. Dally
4. Debauchery
5. Deign
6. Deliquesce
7. Dolorous
8. Dubious
9. Epithet
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Improbity
Permeate
Prudish
Sally
Sinistral
Stomach
Strut
Taunt
Astringent
Veneration
Wary
DEFINITION & NOTES
-unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion
-touching along a boundary or at a point
-to deal lightly; to waste time
-extreme indulgence in sensuality
-to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one’s superiority
-to dissolve or melt away
-causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
-giving rise to uncertainty or unsettled in opinion
-a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a
person or thing
-lack of honesty or moral scruples
-to diffuse through or penetrate something
-marked by excessive or priggish attention to propriety or decorum
-to leap out or burst forth suddenly; set out, depart
-of, relating to, or inclined to the left; left-handed
-to bear without overt reaction or resentment; put up with
-to walk with a proud gait or a pompous and affected air
-a sarcastic challenge or insult
-causing the contraction of body tissues, typically skin cells
-respect or awe inspired by the dignity, wisdom, dedication, or talent of a person
-marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping
danger
9th Grade Vocabulary List 14
WORD
1. Acrid
2. Anathema
3. Castigate
4. Clairvoyance
5. Coerce
6. Dirge
7. Discountenance
8. Enunciation
9. Eradicate
10. Inviolable
11. Marred
12. Myriad
13. Obdurate
14. Obscure
15. Recede
16. Redoubtable
17. Serene
18. Sluggard
19. Sordid
20. Stereotype
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor
-the denunciation of something as accursed
-to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
-ability to perceive matters beyond the range of ordinary perception
-to restrain or dominate by force
-a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
-to look with disfavor on; discourage by evidence of disapproval
-a systematic and usually clear statement
-to do away with completely
-secure from violation, profanation, assault, or trespass
-having been affected negatively
-having innumerable aspects or elements
-stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing or hardened in feelings
-not readily understood or clearly expressed
-to move back or away; to grow less or smaller
-causing fear or alarm; also illustrious or eminent
-marked by or suggestive of utter calm and unruffled repose or quietude
-a habitually lazy person
-marked by baseness or grossness
-something conforming to a fixed or general pattern
9th Grade Vocabulary List 15
WORD
1. Auspicious
2. Begrudge
3. Compromise
4. Braggadocio
5. Daguerreotype
6. Diorama
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Disabuse
Docile
Emollient
Gavel
Luscious
Notoriety
Pique
Promulgate
Remonstrance
Apotheosis
Slew
Vendible
Vertigo
Wile
DEFINITION & NOTES
-showing or suggesting that future success is likely
-to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure
-a concession to something derogatory or prejudicial
-boastful or arrogant behavior
-an early photograph produced on a silver or silver-covered copper plate
-a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures either in miniature or as a
large scale recreation
-to free from error, fallacy, or misconception
-easily taught, led, or managed
-making soft; also making less intense or harsh
-a mallet used for commanding attention or confirming an action
-having a delicious taste or smell; richly luxurious or appealing to the senses
-the quality or state of being generally known and talked of usually unfavorably
-a transient feeling of wounded vanity
-to make known by open declaration
-an earnest presentation of reasons for opposition or grievance
-the highest point in the development of something; its culmination or climax
-a large number
-capable of being sold
-a sensation of whirling or loss of balance
-a trick or stratagem intended to ensnare or deceive
9th Grade Vocabulary List 16
WORD
1. Aberration
2. Abraded
3. Aural
4. Aurora
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Compliant
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Diligent
Din
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Execrable
Hangar
Harangue
Inveigh
Merge
Meticulous
Patron
17. Psychosis
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18. Pugnacious
19. Pundit
20. Wreak
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DEFINITION & NOTES
-the fact or instance of deviating especially from a moral standard or normal state
-to rub or wear away especially by friction
-of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing
-dawn; the Roman goddess of dawn
-a luminous phenomenon of that consists of streamers of light in the upper atmosphere
-ready or disposed to conform, submit, or adapt
-association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
-characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort
-a loud continued noise
-to clear from alleged fault or guilt
-very bad; wretched
-shelter, shed; especially a covered and enclosed area for housing and repairing aircraft
-a speech addressed to a public assembly; a ranting speech or writing
-to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently
-to blend gradually by stages that blur distinctions; to become combined into one
-marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details
-one that uses wealth or influence to help an individual, institution, or cause
-one who buys the goods or uses the services offered especially by an establishment
-fundamental derangement of the mind characterized by defective or lost contact with
reality especially as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and
behavior
-having a quarrelsome or combative nature
-a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media
-to bring about; cause
9th Grade Vocabulary List 17
WORD
1. Abrasive
2. Abscission
3. Avarice
4. Aver
5. Concatenate
6. Stricture
7. Disapprobation
8. Exhaustive
9. Exhilarate
10. Haughtiness
11. Intransigence
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Ire
Millinery
Mince
Pecuniary
Pedant
Purist
Semantic
Titter
Virtuosity
DEFINITION & NOTES
-causing irritation
-the act or process of cutting off
-excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain
-to allege or assert in pleading
-linked together
-a restriction on a person or activity
-the act or state of disapproving
-testing all possibilities or considering all elements
-to make cheerful and excited
-the condition of being blatantly and disdainfully proud
-the quality or state of refusing to compromise or abandon an extreme position or
attitude
-intense and usually openly displayed anger
-women’s apparel for the head
-to utter or pronounce with affectation
-of or relating to money
-one who makes a show of knowledge
-a person who adheres strictly and often excessively to a tradition
-of or relating to meaning in language
-to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner
-great technical skill as in the practice of a fine art
9th Grade Vocabulary List 18
WORD
1. Abstain
2. Abstemious
3. Balm
4. Conciliate
5. Discord
6. Exemplar
7. Exorbitant
8. Hasten
9. Headstrong
10. Invidious
POS
v.
adj.
n.
v.
n.
n.
adj.
v.
adj.
adj.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
adj.
n.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
v.
v.
Irksome
Mettle
Minion
Partiality
Peer
Peerless
Quack
Quagmire
Stipple
Vitiate
DEFINITION & NOTES
-to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
-marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
-a soothing restorative agency
-to gain by pleasing acts; appease
-a lack of agreement or harmony as between persons, things, or ideas
-one that serves as a model or example; often an ideal or standard
-exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount, or size
-to move or act quickly; to urge on
-not easily restrained; impatient of control, advice, or suggestions
-tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy
-of an unpleasant or objectionable nature
-tending to make weary, irritated, or bored
-vigor and strength of spirit or temperament
-a servile dependent, follower, or underling
-a special taste or liking
-one that is of equal standing with another
-matchless, incomparable
-charlatan; a pretender to medical skill
-a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position
-to mark a surface with numerous small dots or specks
-to spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something
9th Grade Vocabulary List 19
WORD
1. Absolution
2. Abysmal
3. Avocation
4. Banal
5. Concur
6. Concurrent
7. Contagious
8. Disburse
9. Discordancy
10. Exigency
11. Exorcism
12. Hawser
13. Internecine
14. Iridescence
15. Ironic
POS
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
adj.
adj.
v.
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n.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
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17.
18.
19.
20.
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adj.
n.
n.
n.
Misconstrue
Pedantic
Pejorative
Toady
Virtuoso
DEFINITION & NOTES
-the act of setting free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt
-having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward
-a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one’s vocation especially for enjoyment
-lacking originality, freshness, or novelty
-to express agreement; to act together to a common end
-operating or occurring at the same time
-communicable by contact
-to make a payment in settlement of
-the state of not being in accord; the state of being disagreeable in sound
-a state of affairs that makes urgent demands
-the expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit
-a large rope for towing, mooring, or securing a ship
-of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
-a lustrous or attractive quality or effect
-describes a situation which is contrary to normal expectation often with humorous
effect
-to mistake the meaning of; misinterpret
-overly concerned with minute details; formalism
-a statement or a description that is intended to disparage or belittle
-one who flatters with the intent of gaining favor
-one skilled in or having a taste for fine arts
9th Grade Vocabulary List 20
WORD
1. Achromatic
2. Bane
3. Befuddle
4. Confound
5. Consecrate
6. Discrete
7. Expatiate
8. Garish
9. Heresy
10. Hiatus
11. Irrational
12. Misnomer
13. Misogyny
14. Pensive
15. Percipient
16. Quarantine
17. Quay
18. Vehemence
19. Vitriolic
20. Zany
POS
adj.
n.
v.
v.
v.
adj.
v.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
DEFINITION & NOTES
-being without accidentals or modulation
-a source of harm or ruin
-to confuse or muddle
-to confuse, perplex, or put to shame
-to set a part for a particular purpose, often religious
-individually separate and distinct
-to speak or write at length or in detail
-offensively or distressingly vivid
-an opinion or belief that is contrary to church teaching
-an interruption in time or continuity
-not endowed with reason or understanding
-an incorrect name or inappropriate designation
-a hatred of women
-musingly or dreamily
-having good understanding, perceptive
-a state, period, or place of isolation
-a structure built along the bank of a waterway that is used as a landing place
-intensity or forcefulness of expression
-a harsh or corrosive tone
-amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic