1 CISVA Study List 2014-2015 *Primary Students* Please study the words in RED for next week’s verbal bee on pages 1-2. Words will be selected from those in RED. You do not need to know the definitions; the definitions are written for intermediate students. *Intermediate students* Please study the words in RED and BLUE on pages 1-2. I’ve provided definitions for most words. You will need to look up the rest in your paper dictionary if you do not know what the word means. Aboriginal (First Nations people) Abstruse (hard to understand) Annihilation (total destruction) Arraignment (calling of someone to court) Anonymity (state of being unknown) Arrow Another Astonish (surprised, amazed) Anthropomorphic (resembling human form that is not human) Asylum (hospital for people who have impaired thought processes) Anticipatory (waiting for something) Attitude Accoutrement/accouterment Acrylics (type of paint) Actress (female actor) Adroitly (very skillful) Aerodynamic (study of movement of air) Affluent (abundance of wealth, goods) Aficionado/aficionado (person who is enthusiastic, fan) Agitation (feeling troubled, nervous) Antipathy (strong feeling of dislike) Aphasia (loss of ability to speak/understand language due to injury) Apiary (place where bees are keptS) Agitprop (political propaganda-art work) Appellate (having power to review decisions made in court) Ailment (minor illness) Aren’t Alpha (first letter of Greek alphabet) Armistice (calling truce between opposing parties) Attribute (quality, characteristics) Aubergine (French for eggplant) Aura (atmosphere that radiates from a person/thing) Avenge (cause harm on someone) Award (overflowing with water) Barge (rudely walk in, interrupt) 2 Basically Catechumen (person learning religious studies) Bassoon (wind instrument) Bazooka (weapon used in war) Caucasian (person of European descent) Cavalier (knight) Cohesive (sticking together) Collegiate (belonging to college) Comedienne (female comedian) Bebop (style of jazz) Betrothal (promise to marry someone) Bloviate (talking for a long time in a self-centered manner) Bodega (small grocery, wine cellar) Bolide (large meteor) Bombard (attack continuously with bombs) Celsius (measure of temperature) Comma Complacency(self-satisified) Cephalopod (family of marine animal of octopus, squid) Composer Confess Chancellor (government official of Austria or Germany) Charioteer (one who drives chariot, a horse drawn vehicle) Congressional (national body of assembly) Consternation (feeling anxious) Corduroy (fabric, thick) Cheapskate (stingy person) Bonsai (small potted plant) Bountiful (abundant) Bourgeois (middle-class) Bric-a-brac (French for trinkets) Broccoli Correct Chicle (latex of sapodilla tree, used to make gum) Correlation Chiffonade (finely cut veggies used to garnish) Courtier (royal advisor to king/queen) Chimera/chimaera (firebreathing female monster, or hoping for something that is impossible to achieve) Cowlick Chimney Cursive Cinematic (relating to cinema, movies) Dawdle Deaf Circadian (recurring naturally on 24 hour cycle) Depict Cumbersome (heavy to use or carry) Bucket Bulbous (round, bulging) Bulwark (defensive wall) Bumpy Carcinogen (substance that can cause cancer) Carriage Derivative Circumstantial (indirect facts, depending on situation) Detective 3 Diadem Gangster Eternity Dictate Genetic Evangelize Dirndl Genoise Evince Disarray Glitter Exorcism Dissemble Gluttonous Experiment Divine Gorgon Expunge Divvy Government Extinguish Dodecahedron Grace Extracted Domain Gradual Fait accompli Dragnet Grouse Famished Duplicity Guineas Feng shui Eggplant Gustatory Flung Elegiac Hackamore Focaccia Elude Halloween Follicle Emblazoned Hankering Foray Empower Herculean Forbidden Encryption Hermitage Fouled Endure Historical Freeze Entrance Histrionics Freight Enviable Hoi polloi Freudian Epizootic Equation Holiness Friction Frump Equinox Hollow Honeybee Fuel Equivalent Honour Galoot Erstwhile Hooligan 4 Lanai Humourist Merge Landslide Hydra Millilitre/ milliliter Lasso Illustrious Million Launch Imagination Minority Laureate Imbibe Mollify Lawyer Immigration Monochrome Ledge Imperious Morale Leeway Importunate Mortal Legacy Incentive Motion Leonine Inched Moustache/mustache Levity Infamous Moviegoer Lingua franca Infant Mugwump Logical Infringe Mysterious Lolled Injurious Netiquette Lucrative Insight Nigh Lumberjack Insinuate Nineteen Macrocosm Introverted Obsidian Malaise Isochronous Occipital Mammalian Issue Ombudsman Manufacture Joust Omnibus Market Juxtapose Ostracism Matriculation Kinsman Knock Owner Maunder Mechanical Lambasted Member Panache Pariah 5 Pastel Princely Roustabout Prognosticate Sapphire Property Satiety Propulsion Schism Publish Science Pulitzer Scintillation Pyrotechnics Scorpion Quadrillion Sedentary Qualms Seraphic Quaver Shiatsu Querulous Shortfall Queue Shrimp Quorum Situation Ragamuffin Sketch Rappelled Smithereens Rebuff Smoothie/smoothy Recoup So-called Regnal Software Rejuvenate Sororal Renewable Sotto voce Respiratory Sought Retire Spreadsheet Revanche Stewardship Rosin Stridency Pavlovian Payment Peddle Perceived Permafrost Permission Petroglyphs Photogenic Physical Piety Piracy Plagiarism Pliant Pluck Podium Pontiff Porosity Portmanteau Possible Predict Prefix Premium Presence Presumptuous 6 Travesty Stubble Vivacious Trifle Suasion Vouch Tuesday Sustainability Wattage Turmoil Swagger Wheedle Unctuous Talisman Whimper Uppity Tangible Wildebeest Urban Taught Wildlife Velociraptor Thawed Winnow Ventriloquy Theater/theatre Wren Verdure Thousandths Yeast Vestigial Tomahawk Yonder Vice versa Torsion Virtue Transform Vitriolic 7