English Midyear vocab
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- Abhor
- Utterly detest; to loathe; to hate
- Abhorrent
- loathsome; repugnant; not admirable
- Acquit
- to relieve from accusation; to pronounce not guilty
- Acquittal
- the pronouncement of not guilty; exculpation
- Admonish
- to warn of a fault; to caution; to reprove gently
- ambrosial
- extremely pleasing in taste or smell; delicious
- complexity
- Difficulty; intricacy; opposite of simplicity
- confine
- to shut up; imprison; keep in narrow, cramped quarters
- confinement
- imprisonment
- consign
- to hand over, commit; give transfer, deliver by signing over
- decade
- a period of ten years
- detonate
- to explode with suddenness and violence; to cause to explode
- detonation
- an explosion
- effrontery
- shameless boldness; insolence; gall; temerity
- ephemeral
- lasting one day only; fleeting; short-lived; transitory
- excruciating
- causing great pain ot anguish; unbearably painful
- forbearance
- act of refraining; abstaining; leniency; patience
- gullible
- easily deceived or cheatedl credulous
- haggle
- to argue or dispute over a price in a petty way
- hamper
- to interfere with; to hinder; impede
- immersion
- absorption; state of being deeply engrossed
- insomnia
- inability to sleep; abnormal wakefulness; sleeplessness
- insomniac
- a person suffering from sleeplessness
- lapse
- accidental mistakel a trivial fault; become invalid
- nettlesome
- irritating; causing annoyance or vexation
- oblivion
- condition of being forgotten or unknown
- probe
- critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity; investigation
- Prodigious
- extrordinary in amount or size; enormousl gigantic
- prodigy
- A person of extrordinary talent or ability; a wonder
- render
- to hand down officially; to deliver a verdict; to give
- residue
- what is left over after a part is taken; remainder, rest
- rejuvenate
- to make young or youthful again; give new vigor to; refresh
- repast
- food for one occasion of easting; a meal
- replenish
- to bring back to condition of being full; to refill
- salutary
- favorable to health; healthful; beneficial
- score
- group or set of twenty; twenty
- snub
- to treat with disdain or comtempt; to slight; insult
- scutinize
- to examine very closely; to inspect
- Scrutiny
- ab examination or inspection; a review
- supersede
- to force out of use; to displace; supplant, replace
- sweltering
- oppressively hot; torrid
- suture
- a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body
- unruffled
- not upset or agitated; calm; cool; collected
- unwieldy
- hard to handle because of size; weightl cumbersome
- unwieldiness
- bulkiness
- unwittingly
- unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently
- withdraw
- to take back or remove; to retreat or leave
- withdrawl
- departure; the opposite of approach
- zany(n)
- a clown or buffon
- zany(adj)
- having characteristics of a clown
- ameliorate
- to become better; to make better; improve
- amelioration
- improvement
- baffle
- frustrating; bewildering
- baffle(corrected version)
- bewilder;perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate
- cinema
- movies, motion picture industry
- cinematography
- the art of making motion pictures
- conserve
- to keep from waste, loss of decay; to save
- conservation
- preservation from loss, injury or waste
- conservationist
- one who advocates the saving of our natural resources
- despise
- lookdown on with contempt; loathe; regard as inferior
- despicable
- worthy of contempt; contemtible; opposite of praiseworthy
- detriment
- injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage
- detrimental
- injurious to health
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant
- ebulliece
- exuberance
- exaggerate
- overstate, go beyond the limits of actual truth
- exaggeration
- overstatement; opposite of an understatement
- exotic
- excitingly strange; not native but introduced from a foreign country
- exhort
- arouse by wordsl advise strongly; urge
- exhortation
- urgent recommendation or advice
- expertise
- specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how;
- folly
- lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking
- formerly
- in an earlier period; previously
- finicky
- excessively concerned with trifles or details; fussy; particular
- gall
- make sorw; irritate mentally; annoy; vex; nerve
- harmonious
- friendly; amicable
- ignoramous
- a stupid person or dunce
- impediment
- something that hinders or obstructs; hindrance; obstacle
- inane
- lacking significance of sense; pointless, silly, insipip
- indolent
- disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic
- indemnify
- compensate for loss, damage, injury; reimburse; repay
- intact
- untouched by anything that damages or diminishes
- invalidate
- abolish, annul
- invalid
- having no effect or force
- noncarcinogenic
- not producing, not tending to produce cancer
- occident
- countries of America and Europe; the west
- parsimonious
- unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy
- parsimony
- stinginess, opposite of generosity
- peruse
- read; look at fairly attentively; study
- raze
- destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level to the ground
- reticence
- restraint in communicating; opposite of frankness
- retire
- withdraw from active duty or business; go to bed
- retort
- anser; reply sharply or angrily; a quick witty reply
- scuffle
- a brawl or fight; to wrestle; grapple
- spurn
- to thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject
- stipend
- fized pay for services; salary; regular allowance
- surveillance
- close watch over a person, group, area; supervision
- subversion
- sabotage, undermining
- tepid
- moderately warm; lukewarm
- tractable
- easily led, taught, controlled; yielding; docile
- wager
- a bet; to gamble; to bet
- wrane
- decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink
- ascetic
- a person who shuns pleasure and lives simply; self denying
- attenuate
- to make thin; to weaken
- adulation
- a humorous imitation
- apiary
- a place where bees are kept
- aviary
- a place where birds are kept
- antidote
- a remedy for a poison or evil
- acclain
- to welcome with approval; to applaud loudlyq
- banter
- playful teasing; joking; raillery
- blissful
- perfectly happy, very happy
- buoyant
- able to float; cheerful
- complacement
- too pleased with oneself-often unaware of possile defects; smug
- chagrin
- excessive praise; flattery
- chagrin(correct version
- embarrassment; mortification; dissapointment
- cherubic
- chubby and innocent look; like a child angel
- cajolery
- persuasion by flattery; wheelding; coaxing
- compunction
- regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm
- convalescent
- a person recovering from sickness
- caricature
- humorous imitation
- adulation(correct version
- excessive praise; flattery
- droll
- odd and laughter provoking
- derogatory
- expressing low self esteem; belittling; disparaging
- delectable
- very pleasing to taste; delightful
- dejected
- sad; in low spirits; depressed
- ecstasy
- a state of overwhelming joy; rapture
- eulogize
- to praise or extol; to laud or glorify
- emaciated
- made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness
- fulsome
- offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting
- fester
- to form pus; to rankle; to rot or putrefy
- facetious
- in the habit of joking; said in jest without serious intent
- flippant
- taking serious matters lightly
- gala
- characterized by festivity
- glum
- moody, gloomy, dour
- halycon
- calm, peaceful
- hypochondriac
- one who is morbidly anxious about personal health; one suffering from imagined illness
- immunity
- resistance to a disease; freedom from an obligation
- irony
- humor, whose intended meaning is the opposite of the words used
- lamentable
- pitiable; rueful
- lackey
- a follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; a toady; a syncophant
- jubilant
- showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant
- malignant
- threating to cause deathq
- libel
- false and defamatory printed/written statement
- menagerie
- a place where animals are kept and trained; a collection of wild animals
- harlequin
- a buffoon or a clown
- nostalgia
- homesickness; longing for the past
- obesity
- excessive body weight
- pathos
- the quality of events in literature. Music that arouses pity
- parasite
- an animal or person living on others
- pudgy
- short and plump; chubby
- regimen
- a set of rules to improve health
- sullen
- resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy
- sycophant
- a parasitic flatterer; a boot licker; a truckler
- scavenger
- an animal or a person removing refuse or decay
- stigma
- a mark of disgrace
- svelte
- slender; lithe
- sarcasm
- sneering langauge intended to hurt a person's feelings
- satire
- language or writng that exposes follies or absured by holding them up to ridicule
- travesty
- a imitation that makes a serious thing seem rediculous
- toxic
- poisonous
- unguent
- a salve or ointment
- virulent
- extremely poisonous; deadly; venomous; very bitter
- virus
- a disease causing substance too small to be seen through microscope; corruptive force
- adjacent
- lying near or next to; brodering; adjoining
- adolescent
- a teenager of the teenage period
- amorphous
- shapeless; having no definate shape; disorganized
- antediluvian
- belonging to the time before the Biblical flood
- bias
- opinion formed before there are grounds for it; prejiduce
- bow
- the forwward part of the ship; the prow
- bigoted
- intolerant; narrow minded
- brine
- salty water; the sea or ocean; the deep
- carrion
- decaying flesh of a carcas
- cogitate
- to think over, consider with care, to ponder
- crone
- a withered old woman
- crux
- the most important point; the essential part
- concave
- curved inward; creating a hollow space
- dipsomnia
- uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism
- diffident
- lacking self confidence; unduly timid and shy
- deduce
- derive by reasoning; infer
- dilemma
- situation requiring a choice between two equally bad alternatives
- doldrums
- windless part of the ocean near the equator
- egoism
- excessive concern for oneself; selfishness; conceit
- environs
- districts surrounding a place; the suburbs
- forebear
- forefather or ancestor
- fallible
- liable to be mistaken
- flotsam
- the wreckoage of a ship or its cargo, floating on the sea; driftage
- grave
- deserving serious attention; weighty; monumentous
- hoary
- white or gray with age; ancient
- heterodox
- rejecting accepted doctrines and/or beliefs
- hyptothetical
- supposed; having the characteristics of a supposition
- inebriated
- drunk, intoxicated
- illusion
- a misleading appearance; a false impression
- immaculate
- spotless, absolutely clean pure, faultless
- juvenile
- youthful or immature
- leeward
- in the direction away from the wind
- mariner
- seamen
- matriarchq
- mother and ruler of the family
- malleable
- capable of being shaped by hammering; adaptable
- nugatory
- of little or no value; trifling; worthless; useless
- ostentatious
- done to impress others; showy; pretentious
- octogenarian
- a person in his 80s
- obsolete
- no longer in use; out of date
- patriarch
- father and ruler of the family
- plausible
- superficially true or reasonable; apparently trustworthy
- posthumous
- published after the authors death; occuring after death
- primeval
- pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
- puberty
- physical beginning of manhood or womanhood
- preposterous
- senseless; absurd; irrational
- rotund
- to round out; plump; full-toned
- relevant
- bearing upon the matter in hand; pertinent
- speculate
- to reflect, mediate, conjecture
- superannuated
- retired on pension; extremely old
- septuagenarian
- person in his 70s
- teetotaler
- person who totally abstains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- veteran
- ex member of the armed services
- vain
- conceited; empty; worthless; futile
- vanity
- the opposite of humilty
- yore
- long ago
- apathy
- lack of feeling, emotion, interest, excitement; indifference
- anatomy
- dissection of plants, animals for the purpose of studying structure
- atom
- smallest particle of an element
- antipodes
- parts of the globe
- anarchy
- total absence of rule of government; confusion; disorder
- apogee
- farthest point from the Earth in the orbit of a satellite
- chiropodist
- one who treats the ailments of the human foot
- dichotomy
- cutting or divsion into two
- endocrine
- secreting internally
- exocrine
- secreting externally
- endocrditis
- inflammation of the lining of the heart
- exogamy
- marriage outside of the tribe, caste, or social group
- empathy
- the complete understanding of another feelings
- geography
- the study of the Earth's surface, climate, continents, and people
- geology
- science dealing with the Earth's history as recorded in rocks
- geometry
- mathematics dealing with lines, angles, surfaces, and planes
- geotropism
- response to Earth's gravity; growing of roots downward in the ground
- heterochromatic
- having a variety of colors
- homogeneous
- of the same kind; similar; uniform
- homonym
- word that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling
- homophonic
- having the same sound
- hyperglycemia
- excess of sugar in the blood
- hypertension
- abnormally high blood pressure
- hyperactive
- overactive
- hyperbole
- extravagant exaggeration of statement
- hypodermic
- injected under the skin
- hypothesis
- a theory or suppostion assumed as a basis of reasoning
- hierarchy
- body of rulers or officials grouped into ranks, each subordinate to the other