English III CP Vocabulary List
Semester Two
Find part of speech, etymology (prefix, root, suffix) and etymological meaning, a brief
definition, and a synonym and an antonym for each word. Use a good dictionary (with
etymology), a thesaurus, and any other vocabulary aide. Then, write a sentence that
demonstrates your ability to use the word accurately. The sentence must include a
contextual clue so that I know you understand the word meaning. You may change the word
usage (tense or part of speech) for clarity.
Homework:
1. Due dates are subject to change, depending on circumstances. Keep an eye on the assignment
board and listen to announcements for any changes.
2. Homework (vocab packet) will be collected every Monday and homework points will be
assigned for completed, quality work. Homework must be completed on the form provided.
Feel free to duplicate the form on your own computer or copy the form according to your
needs. If any sentence is similar to another student’s, it will be considered a violation of the
ethics policy and will result in an ethics violation and a zero on the assignment.
3. Lessons will be reviewed before each quiz (Fridays). If you are absent on the review day,
expect to take the quiz on the scheduled date.
Lesson 1:
abrasion, appalling, complacent, compliance, conflagration, deference, deride, excruciating,
imperative, malign, ominous, oscillate, perilous, pivotal, poignant, undulate,
Lesson 2:
affront, audacity, blanched, carrion, consumptive, fortuitous, indolent, insolence, intangible,
perturbation, plaintive, precarious, pugilist, retinue, surmise, torrid
Lesson 3:
apocryphal, atrocity, beau, cauterize, convivial, dyspepsia, fulminate, glib, hysteria, mundane,
myriad, nonchalant, odious, peremptorily, stolidity, wont
Lesson 4:
caterwauling, cloven, contiguous, denizen, erroneous, hauteur, innuendo, nebulous, obstetrical,
oculist, peremptory, receptacle, rivulet, rotogravure, somnambulatory, supercilious
Lesson 5:
amorphous, armistice, caravansary, contingency, corrugate, enigma, euphemism, expostulation,
inexplicable, libertine, meretricious, pneumatic, punctilious, rajah, redolent, scrutiny
Lesson 6:
abyss, accouterment, belligerent, blatant, contour, garrulous, jaunty, jonquils, luminous,
meticulous, penitentiary, perfunctory, traverse, turgid, vestibule, vigil
Lesson 7:
acquiesce, artifice, beseech, comport, coquetry, demur, effervescent, gloaming, importunate,
inscrutable, inviolable, lucid, quagmire, reprobate, terrestrial, salient
English III CP Vocabulary List
Semester Two
Lesson 8:
abject, alleviate, askance, contemporaneous, disconsolate, distend, ephemeral, incur, perfidy,
peruse, quiescent, reticent, scathe, sullen, voracious, wanton
Lesson 9:
appellation, contrive, evanescent, furtive, gratuitous, idiomatic, impetus, inane, petulant, placate,
promontory, quintessential, reminiscent, repugnant, ruminate, umbrage
Lesson 10:
attenuate, avid, convalesce, cursory, daunt, extenuate, fatuous, gauche, innate, impervious,
impugn, latent, magnanimity, maudlin, prevaricate, sumptuous
Lesson 11:
aberration, amity, benign, bode, complement, corpulent, disparage, enmity, extol, hallow,
impregnable, munificent, obtrude, phlegmatic, recompense, usury
Lesson 12:
amble, archaic, avarice, circumvent, gaunt, guffaw, irk, morose, pauper, perpetuity, ravenous, rue,
sultry, tableau, temerity, virulent
Lesson 13:
acrid, austere, beholden, bellicose, coalesce, countermand, cuckolded, deprecation, doddering,
dolor, obtuse, pique, repudiate, sibilant, vex, vindicate
Lesson 14:
assail, capacious, cosmopolitan, equanimity, formulated, imperial, incessantly, noxious, pedantic,
penury, propitious, ramification, sonorous, tenacious, vagrant, vituperative
Lesson 15: (foreign words and phrases)
Coup de grace, cum laude, double-entendre, en rapport, esprit de corps, par excellence, qui vive,
potpourri, faux pas, savoir-faire, tete-a-tete, nouveau riche, laissez faire, entrée, élan, coup
d’etat, hors d’oeuvres, bon appetite, c’est la vie, cogito, ergo sum, e pluribus unum, ex libris,
requiescat in pace, simper fidelis, status in quo, veni, vidi, vici, viola, per se, et cetera
www.yourdictionary.com
http://www.wordnik.com
http://oxforddictionaries.com
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters
http://vocabulary-vocabulary.com/lookup-learn.php
http://www.etymonline.com