Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Words We Love {English 12}

The following words will appear on your vocabulary final. The words with with an asterisk (*) are from week eight or nine---we did not test on these weeks I know, but you do have the definitions so study them as well.

accolade        affable     affinity      brusque     apocryphal      assuage *      brevity      brusque      appall

cacophony*   coalesce  clemency  blasphemy*  commiserate   diatribe*    duplicity   edifice*   equivocal  

garbled     gravity*     heretic*    incite*     infraction*   irascible   kindle    ludicrous  peruse*  recapitulate

recluse*   renounce   rescind  scrutinize   untenable   vilify    censure*   clamor   cognizant   contract  

desultory  enmity*  erroneous  expedient  garner hindrance  irresolute   languish*   lavish  loquacious

negligent  obtuse    opaque   paucity  profane*  somber*   stagnant  uniform  copious  dearth

dispassionate   effervescent      exuberance   frivolous  hackneyed     insolvent    meander

morose    opulence     parsimonious    peripheral  prodigal   proximity   sagacious    surreptitious

 torpor   unassailable   unobtrusive   unscathed  voluminous    decade   eloquent   exemplary

fledgling   heist incessant  incidental  substantiate  supplant  vacillate   voracious writhe

indefatigable    jargon   lampoon   levity   misanthrope  nonchalance   progeny   querulous    reproach

respite    stoic

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