ENGLISH III - SECOND SEMESTER VOCABULARY

• Lists 8-15
• Words + definitions (Master list on next page)
• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Meaning in context
• Analogies

Definitions

Words in Context

1. acrimonious
2. bovine
3. conducive
4. consternation
5. corpulent
6. disavow
7. dispassionate
8. dissension
9. dissipate
10. elan
11. expurgate
12. gauntlet
13. hypothetical
14. ignoble
15. impugn
16. intemperate
17. odium
18. perfidy
19. relegate
20. squeamish
21. subservient
22. susceptible

1. absolve
2. caricature
3. clangor
4. contiguous
5. cupidity
6. deleterious
7. enhance
8. enthrall
9. extenuate
10. exude
11. implicit
12. incisive
13. ostentatious
14. paragon
15. paraphrase
16. politic
17. preeminent
18. prosaic
19. redundant
20. sanctimonious
21. scintillating
22. winsome

LIST 9

1. abate
2. adulation
3. anathema
4. astute
5. avarice
6. culpable
7. dilatory
8. egregious
9. equivocate
10. evanescent
11. irresolute
12. modicum
13. nebulous
14. novice
15. penury
16. pretentious
17. recapitulate
18. resuscitate
19. slovenly
20. succinct
21. supposition
22. torpid

1. abet
2. aver
3. blatant
4. broach
5. buttress
6. carousal
7. collate
8. connoisseur
9. disconsolate
10. encumber
11. foment
12. grisly
13. herculean
14. impassive
15. inauspicious
16. incontrovertible
17. magniloquent
18. nonplussed
19. opportune
20. predilection
21. prolific
22. rejoinder

LIST 10

1. accrue
2. annotation
3. antediluvian
4. bedlam
5. covert
6. debonair
7. dun
8. efficacious
9. equanimity
10. fortuitous
11. gist
12. gratuitous
13. imperious
14. inimical
15. invective
16. motley
17. munificent
18. procrastinate
19. provocative
20. recondite
21. reprobate
22. sedentary

1. amenable
2. berate
3. carnage
4. credulous
5. criterion
6. deplete
7. expatiate
8. extraneous
9. inception
10. infirmity
11. jejune
12. obdurate
13. ostensible
14. potpourri
15. precocious
16. providential
17. sadistic
18. sententious
19. supplicate
20. surfeit
21. tortuous
22. turgid

LIST 11

1. abstemious
2. accentuate
3. censurable
4. contingent
5. corroborate
6. denizen
7. discursive
8. disseminate
9. dowdy
10. florid
11. foist
12. gauche
13. heresy
14. inculcate
15. palpable
16. perceptive
17. pernicious
18. quail
19. salient
20. satiate
21. sear
22. specious

1. adamant
2. brouhaha
3. bulwark
4. bumptious
5. choleric
6. cloy
7. curtail
8. deference
9. definitive
10. demeanor
11. enigmatic
12. forbearance
13. impromptu
14. mawkish
15. mollify
16. onus
17. presentiment
18. profligate
19. remit
20. requisite
21. sartorial
22. thwart