Words High School Volume II:
Scrutiny: Slide 2
Acquiesce: Slide 3
Exonerate: Slide 4
Plaintive: Slide 5
Perfidy: Slide 6
Formidable: Slide 7
Redress: Slide 8
Kindred: Slide 9
Plunder: Slide 10
Dissipate: Slide 11
Portend: Slide 12
Periphery: Slide 13
Animosity: Slide 14
Contrite: Slide 15
Depravity: Slide 16
Attrition: Slide 17
Indifference: Slide 18
Intuitive: Slide 19
Rapt: Slide 20
Malicious: Slide 21
Oscillate: Slide 22
Augment: Slide 23
Cacophony: Slide 24
Herald: Slide 25
Emulate: Slide 26
scrutiny: close examination
Syn: perusal, investigation Forms:
N: scrutiny
Ant: glimpse
V: scrutinize, scrutinizes
scrutinized, scrutinizing
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
On closer
scrutiny
it was evident that she was fourteen.
Every arrival on this campus
be scrutinized, the grounds
Leswill
Miserables
TheHugo
Bourne Supremacy
--Victor
checked hourly.
--Robert
Ludlum
Because of their relationship, he came
under
close scrutiny.
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
--Stieg Larsson
I returned to scrutinizing the horizon, my hopes high.
Any form of the word “scrutiny” will appear once
in every 477 pages of text.
The Life of Pi
--Yann Martel
acquiesce: surrender
Syn: capitulate
Ant: refuse
Related: quiet
Forms:
N: acquiescence
V: acquiesce, asquiesces
acquiesced, acquiescing
Adj: acquiescent
Adv: acquiescently
Hector
McQueen
willingly
in plan
the search.
She had
a sense acquiesced
of acquiescing
in the
with the
Murder
on
I passiveness
could not butofacquiesce
a sufferer resigned
, for I was
to the
the
dogOrient
surgeon’s
tired,Express
andtouch.
could not
--Agatha Christie
The House of Mirth
have sat up had I tried. Dracula
--Edith Wharton
--Bram Stoker
He’d flattered me--he understood me well enough to know I
craved flattery—and in gratitude, I
Any form of the word “acquiesce” will appear once
in every 656 pages of text.
acquiesced.
Girl Interrupted
--Susanna Kaysen
exonerate: undo a conviction; prove that
an accused or convicted person is
not guilty
Any form of the word “exonerate” will appear once
in every 4,359 pages of text.
So before you read what’s in that thing, tell me a story that
I can think
of no
answer
exonerates
exonerates
me. in my eyes.
squares
with its
details
andthat
yourself
SnowThe
Falling
on Cedars
Poisonwood
Bible
She knew that even if she was exonerated
of
the Kingsolver
murder,
--David
Guterson
--Barbara
she could not return to her previous existence.
No one of us can be completely exonerated from
The Eldest
suspicion.
And Then
There Were None
--Christopher
--Agatha
Christie Paolini
syn: vindicate, pardon
ant: condemn
related: onus (burden)
Forms: N: exoneration
V: exonerate, exonerates,
exonerated, exonerating
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
plaintive: mournful; expressing sadness
through a sound
Forms: N: 00
syn: sorrowful
V: 00
ant: cheerful
Adj: plaintive
Adj: plaintively
relative: complain
“I don’t want no trouble,” he said
plaintively.
She made a sound I had not heard them make before ,
Of Mice and Men
plaintive shriek.
--John Steinbeck
Airborn
The plaintive melody, sung in low tones, spoke beyond
--Kenneth Oppel
its notes. Black: The Birth of Evil
--Ted Dekker
“I don’t want to talk to you,” she said, hating her plaintive
tone.
The Guardian
--Nicholas Sparks
Any form of the word “plaintive” will appear once
in every 1,021 pages of text.
perfidy: betrayal
syn: treachery; infidelity;
untrustworthiness;
faithlessness
ant: fidelity, loyalty
Forms:
N: perfidy
V: 00
Adj: perfidious
Adv: perfidiously
So, she discovered my perfidy and I had her lured to a
dangerous neighborhood and ordered her throat cut.
In spite
It is ingratitude,
of my perfidy,
perfidy
she
Glory
was
treachery!
in desperate
Death
to see me
Robb
one more time. HP and the--J.D.
Deathly
Hollows
The
Once and Future
--J.K. Rowling
King
He says you’ll see the bullet holes all over
theWhite
front and they
--T.H.
should be left there to remind the Irish of English perfidy.
Angela’s Ashes
--Frank McCourt
Any form of the word “perfidy” will appear once
in every 1,587 pages of text.
formidable: intimidating in size and power
syn: imposing; enormous;
intimidating; impressive
ant: diminutive; meek;
insignificant
Forms: N: 00
V: 00
Adj: formidable
Adv: formidable
You would make a formidable opponent, I’m sure.
Brisingr
For a moment, the girl seemed--Chrisopher
to lose her Paolini
formidable
self-control.
Eragon eyed her
Eldest
formidable claws and said, “Wait!”
--Christopher
Paolini
Eragon
That will of iron is formidable,
and
I am quite exhausted
--Christopher
Paolini
by it all. A Great and Terrible Beauty
--Libba Bray
Any form of the word “formidable” will appear once
in every 331 pages of text.
redress: the process of seeing justice
for denial of rights
Forms: N: redress
syn: recompense;
V: redress, redresses,
amends; reparations
redressed, redressing
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
What is now amiss that Caesar and
Senate
Thehis
Once
and must
Future redress?
King
Could anything be done to redress
these inequities?
--T.H. White
Julius
Caesar
“But the question must be asked, “If this
boy
thought that he
Strength
in What
Remains
--Wm
Shakespeare
was somehow wronged,
why did
he not
go into
a court of law
--Tracy Kidder
redress of grievances?
and seek a
Native Son
--Richard Wright
Any form of the word “redress” will appear once
in every 1,165 pages of text.
kindred: related by blood,
or seeming to be related
by blood; compatible
Forms:
N: kin, kinship, kinfolk
V: 00
Adj: kindred
Adv: 00
Relatives: kind
His mother and I were
In her he
kindred
recognized
spirits.a kindred spirit.
Then he smiled a familiar smile,
theThe
smile
of aWes
kindred
Eragon,
Other
Moore,
Christopher
Wes
Paolini
Matthew
andthen
I areI such
kindred
spirits
can
read his
spirit, and
knew out
friendship
wasIMoore
intact.
thoughts without any words at all.
Stephenie Meyer,
BreakingAnne
Dawnof Green Gables
--Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are somehow kindred spirits justAnybeyond
our family ties.
form of the word “kindred” will appear once
in every 555 pages of text.
Then he smiled a familiar smile, the smile of a
The Ultimate Gift,
Jim Stovall
plunder: V: raid for the purpose of stealing
N: stolen goods
Forms: N: plunder
V: plunder, plunders,
syn: loot, pillage
plundered, plundering
Adj: plunderous
Adv: 00
Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves
Everything
now
hinged on
thecan
assent
of Heafstaag,
brutal
and dwarves,
wherever
they
find them;
and theya guard
plunder.
king
personal
triumphant
theirinterested
plunder only
as in
long
as theyglory
live. andThe
Hobbit
The Crystal
--J.R.R.Shard
Tolkien
Force is all they know, force, fraud --R.A.
and plunder.
Salvatore
Atlas Shrugged
He was arrested for
plundering.
--Ayn Rand
Slaughterhouse 5
--Kurt Vonnegut
Any form of the word “plunder” will appear
once in every 380 pages of text.
dissipate: scatter widely until gone;
lose intensity
Forms:
syn: dispel; attenuate
ant: intensify; amplify; fortify
N: dissipation
V: dissipate,
dissipates, dissipated,
dissipating
Slowly the voices outside dissipate down the road.
The mist dissipated swiftly, but I held The
my shield
Help in place.
--Kathryn
Stockett
In the wake of the adrenelineBreaking
rush that
Dawn
was slowly
dissipating,
--Stephanie
Meyer
A
Bend
in
the
Road
Miles
felt tired.
They
were
both half-dressed
and Sparks
growing colder as their
--Nicholas
heat began to
dissipate.
The Lovely Bones
--Alice Sebold
Any form of the word “dissipate” will appear once
in every 623 pages of text.
attrition: fade-away; drop-off
Syn: lessening;decline
Ant: fortification
Forms:
N: attrition
V: 00
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
He hopes to drag out this fight, to bleed us dry through
attrition.
Brisingr attrition of glaciers,
Eruption, earthquake, avalanche,
--Christopher
Paolini
He’d had good experiences with almost
all of them,
though
the erosion
of water,
the
cracking
oftrick
frost,
the
weathering
of
Several
times
the
enemy
was
able
to
him
into
exposing
in his business there was an above average rate of
rainweaknesses
and
and
snow—these
it had
eternally
fought
and
more
than
he
meantGame
to;
other
times the
enemy
attrition
andwind
turnover.
Ender’s
was able to wear them down
by Scott
attrition
--Orson
Carduntil his victory was
resisted in vain, yet it stood magnificent, frowning, battleas much a matter of luck as strategy. Zeitoun
scarred and undefeated.
The Call of--Dave
of the Canyon
Eggers
--Zane Grey
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in every 7,113 pages of text.
portent: sign that evil is on its way
Syn: omen, harbinger Forms:
N: portent, portents
Root: port: to carry
V: portend, portends,
Relatives: important,
import, export, portable,
deport
portended, portending
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive
“It has been guessed already,” said Ingold;” for there have
There
by lightning,
had beenare
no ominous
signs or portents
portents. , no secret signals.
been strange portents here of late.
The
Devil’s
Arithmetic
Grendel
Would anyone like me to help them
interpret
the
shadowy
--Jane--John
Yolen
The Fellowship
of the
Ring
Gardner
portents within their Orb?
HP--J.R.R.
and theTolkien
Prisoner of Azkaban
--J.K. Rowling
Any form of the word “portent” will appear once
in every 3,748 pages of text.
periphery: edge
Syn: margin
Root: peri: around
Relatives: perimeter
Forms:
N: periphery
V: 00
Adj: peripheral
Adv: 00
Ari hung back on the periphery.
the World
and
Hassan milled about the Saving
periphery
of my
lifeOther
after that.
Extreme Sports
The Kite
Runner
--James
Patterson
--Khaled Hosseini
Langdon felt like a ship on the periphery
of a storm…
tossed but detached.
Angels and Demons
Leila and Any
I tended
to dwell around the corners,
along the
--Dan Brown
form of the word “periphery” will appear once
in every 3,023 pages of text.
periphery.
Native Speaker
--Chang-Rae Lee
animosity: hatred; resentment
Syn: animus, hatred,
bad blood, ill will
Ant: alliance, friendship,
camaraderie,
congeniality
Forms:
N: animosity
V:00
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
Jacob didn’ like the reminder; the pain in his eyes hardened
into animosity.
Eclipse
Its eyes glared at then with
steady, sunken
--Stephenie
Meyer animosity.
There was an unfriendly feelCujo
in the air an animosity
--Stephen King
that resisted intruders.
Eragon
--Christopher Paolini
His one eye met hers with an impersonal animosity.
Any form of the word “animosity” will appear once
in every 1,351 pages of text.
Gone with the Wind
--Margaret Mitchell
contrite: sorry
Syn: repentant, rueful
She didn’t feel he was sufficiently
Forms: N: contrition
V: 00
Adj: contrite Adv: contritely
contrite.
Outcasts
United
“I’m sorry you lost your rocket
stuff,”
he told me, truly
--Warren St. John
October Sky
contrite.
--Homer Hickam
Now say an Act of Contrition
and remember Our Lord
Angela’s Ashes
--Frank McCourt
and be forgiven.
watches you every minute.
I shall feel contrition
Any form of the word “contrite” will appear once
in every 3,636 pages of text.
The Power and the Glory
--Graham Greene
depravity: evil; outside the boundaries of
human decency
Syn: degeneracy
Ant: normalcy
Forms: N: depravity
V: 00
Adj: depraved
Adv: 00
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our
depravity.
Life of Pi
Was there no end to their depravity?
--Yann Martel
Artemis Fowl
You’re dangerous and depraved
and you ought to be
--Aoin Colfer
taken out and shot.
Catch-22
--Joseph Heller
I have prayed—to both sides– to release me from this
Rose Red
depravity of thought.
--Stephen King
Any form of the word “depravity” will appear once
in every 1,112 pages of text.
indifferent: not caring, having no opinion
Syn: apathetic, neutral, Forms:
blase
N: indifference
Ant: passionate, ardent, V: 00
fervent
Adj: indifferent Adv: indifferently
Theypure,
The
werecolorless
both
indifferent
vastness of the
to what
sky stretched
people might
over think
him,
indifferent
of them.
to him and his Love
suffering.
in the Time of Cholera
and
the
Deathly Hollows
Garcia
Marquez
I try to sound indifferent, --Gabriel
but HP
my voice
cracks.
--J. K. Rowling
The government obviously isSuzanne
guided by
abstract considerations,
Collins
--The Hunger Games
and remains indifferent
to the influence its measures
may exercise.
Any form of the word “indifferent” will appear once
in every 295 pages of text.
Anna Karenina
--Leo Tolstoy
intuitive: having unexplainable powers of
knowing and understanding
Syn: perceptive
Forms: N: intuition
Ant: dense, obtuse V: intuit, intuits, intuited,
Relatives: tuition, intuiting
Adj: intuitive Adv: intuitively
tutor
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really
Bella,
for aimmersion
fairly intuitive
person,
can be socurrent
obtuse!of life.
a sudden
of the soul
into you
the universal
Eclipse
She was far more intuitive than
I. HerThe
gift Alchemist
for understanding
--Stephanie
--Paolo
MeyerCoelho
people was much greater.
The Color Purple
--Alice Walker
Intuitively,
I knew how easily distances could harden and
become permanent. Drown
--Junot Diaz
Any form of the word “intuitive” will appear once
in every 596 pages of text.
rapt: stunned with amazement
syn: mezmerized
ant: bored,
distracted
Relatives: rapture,
enrapture
He was too busy staring at Isabelle,
rapt
City of Bones
and open-mouthed.
--Cassandra
I filled her in on the progress,
watchingClare
her
rapt
I was
filledas
with
a mix
admiration
andWedding
abject fear.
The
attention
she
triedofto rapt
imagine
it.
Life
of Pi Sparks
--Nicholas
Our six hundred faces gazed up at the little
man Martel
in rapt
--Yann
attention.
October Sky
--Homer Hickam
Any form of the word “rapt” will appear once
in every 430 pages of text.
malicious: intending to do harm to a person or
animal
Forms: N: malice,
With malice toward none,with charity for all…
maliciousness
Syn: evil, toxic, spiteful, vindictive,
Second Inaugural
Address
V:00
venomous, malevolent
Adj: malicious
--Abraham
Lincoln
Ant: benign, benevolent
Origin: mal: bad
Adv: maliciously
His eyes glittered. Such malice was in them that men
Three of four faces looked at him in malicious amusement.
stepped back from him.
The Two Towers
The
Power and the Glory
--J.R.R.
Tolkien
--Graham Greene
Malfoy elbowed past Hermione to block Harry’s way up
the stone steps to the castle, his face gleeful and his pale
eyes glinting maliciously.
Any form of the word “malicious” will appear once
in every 307 pages of text.
HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
--J. K. Rowling
Oscillate: Move or change in a steady,
back-and-forth pattern
Forms:
N: oscillation
V: oscillate, oscillates,
oscillated, oscillating
Adj:
00
Adv:which
00
They spent that summer oscillating between
childhood,
Syn: vacillate; waffle
Ant: stagnate
still held
them
its clasp,
and their in
awakening
as man and
A small
faninsat
oscillating
the corner.
woman.
House of Spirits
--Isabelle
Allende
A needle within
her wavered
A Walk
for a
tomoment
Remember
, burning between
--Nicholas Sparks
As
itsI turned
oscillating
awayway
to continue
betweenwalking
two courses.
up the trail, my emotions
oscillated
between nervous anticipation and
Atlas
a nearly
Shrugged
--Ayn Rand
overwhelming sense of dread.
Into Thin Air
--Jon Krakauer
Any form of the word “oscillate” will appear once
in every 2,326 pages of text.
Augment: to increase
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
The libraries were
augmented
Forms:
N: augmentation
V: augment, augments,
augmented, augmenting
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
by donations.
Autobiography
Benjamin
When you inspectThe
your
little kingdom,ofyou
will findFranklin
in it some
little improvement, your flocks increased, and your subjects
augmented.
Robinson
The procession
moved Crusoe
on, and still on, through ever
--Daniel Defoe
They augmenting
augmented
their diets
with fish caught from the
splendors
of welcome.
river, and Tally roasted a rabbit
The
onPrince
a fire she’d
and the
built
Pauper
herself.
--Mark Twain
Uglies
--Scott Westerfield
Any form of the word “augment” will appear once
in every 803 pages of text.
Cacophony: loud, unpleasant
noise
Syn: racket
Relatives: phon (sound):
symphony, telephone,
phonics,
His harsh words cut through the
Forms:
N: cacophony
V: 00
Adj: cacophonous
Adv: 00
cacophony of the attack.
Uglies
Westerfield
He was suddenly assailed by a great--Scottcacophony
of voices.
There was a discharge of bullets
and aof cacophony
The Hound
Rowan
--Henry H. Neff
of bullets.
cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial
It created a
Nineteen Minutes
rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.
--Jodi Picoult
Any form of the word “cacophony” will appear once
Angela’s Ashes
in ever 12,548 pages of text.
--Frank McCourt
Herald: N: Announcer;
V: Announce
Syn: vacillate; waffle
Ant: conceal; withhold
Tonight
heralds
Forms:
N: herald, heralds
V: herald, heralds,
heralded, heralding
Adj: 00
Adv: 00
a new era.
Water
for Elephants
Then Aragon set trumpeters
at each
of the four roads that
--Sara Gruen
Any
ran break
into the
in ring
the routine
of trees,
may
andherald
they blewfor
a great
them unbearable
fanfare, and
Knowaloud.
Why the Caged
Bird Sings
the heralds I cried
The Return
of the King
news.
--Maya Angelou --J. R. R. Tolkien
“Herald,
read the accusation!” said the King.
Any form of the word “herald” will appear once
in every 381 pages of text.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
--Lewis Caroll
Emulate: try to be like someone Forms:
you admire
N: emulation
V: emulate, emulates,
Syn: racket
emulated, emulating
Relatives: phon (sound):
Adj: emulatory
Max was looking to
emulate
of glory.
symphony,
telephone,his moment
Adv: 00
phonics,
I believe in the way he lives hisThe
lifeBook
and I Thief
try to
emulate him.
Jay Allison, et. al.
--Markus Zusak
That suggested that they had decided to stop --This
havingI Believe II
children, emulating
the soap opera characters
they admired.
Half the Sky
--Nicholas Kristof
I’d like to appeal to all our listeners to
emulate
their example,
perhaps by casting a protective charm over any Muggle dwellings
in your street. HP and the Deathly Hollows
--J.K. Rowling
Any form of the word “emulate” will appear once
in every 1,143 pages of text.