English 1-2 Spring Final Vocabulary
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- a clever, usually devious, plan for achieving a goal
- stratagems
- high-spirited, and full of happiness
- jocund
- to reestablish, a close relationship, to settle or resolve
- reconcile
- in inspire with love, to captivate in a romantic sense
- enamored
- immoral or lacking modesty
- wanton
- the quality of being merciful
- lenity
- indicates love and/or sexual desire.
- amorous
- moving or progressing very slowly
- tedious
- to postpone
- prorogued
- a hilariously odd action or gesture; a clown
- antic
- huge and montrous
- prodigious
- to treat in a disrepectful or rude manner
- disparagement
- evil or poisonous
- baleful
- a speech made by a character, usually onstage alone, that reveals his/her inner feelings and thoughts to the audience
- soliloquy
- increase; multiply
- propagate
- showing care judgement; able to recognixe things of elegant nature.
- discteet
- something unpleasant is very likely to happen
- portentous
- a person who holds controversial opinions, especially on who publicy dissents from the offically accepted beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
- heretics
- not capable of being swayed from a course; relentless
- inexorable
- to read or examine, typically with great care
- peruse
- a harmful, corrupting infuence; a disease
- contagion
- not favorable; a bad omen
- inauspicious
- describes someone who is deep in dreamy and/or depressing thoughts
- pensive
- ill-tempered; easily annoyed
- peevish
- gloomy or somber in the way it sounds; slow and sluggish
- sullen
- to die of suffacation; to interrupt or cut off
- stifled
- offensive to the senses; disgusting
- putrid
- great confusion; chaos
- pandemonium
- to reject somethig because s/he --or it-- is unworthy of you
- spurn
- small; inadequate
- meager
- the action of inspecting something closely and thoroughly
- scrutiny
- to speak each of your words clearly and precisely
- enunciate
- to slightly burn
- singed
- to desperately want something; to long/yern for something
- coveted
- a command; an urgent request
- behest
- having intense feeling; enthuasiastic
- fervent
- not capable of being expressed or desccribed
- ineffable
- to violently assult someone or something with words; a harsh scolding
- lambaste
- to make something burdensome, or painful, less intense or severe. to calm or pacify
- assuage
- lacking definite form or boundaries; vague
- nebulous
- forceful; intense; full of vigor or energy
- vehement
- a deviation from the normal, proper, or expected way something usually occurs/happens; a departure from the normal or typical
- aberration
- the act of making an offense or crime seem less serious
- palliation
- to discover with certainty through examination or experimentation
- ascertain
- to burden with; to put a heavy load on; to hinder the action or performance of
- encumber
- to make clear/easily understood, especially through explanation; clarify
- elucidate
- recklessness; foolish disregard of danger
- temerity
- to come together as one; to unite many into one; to fuse together
- coalesce
- abundanly productive; producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
- prolific
- passionate; fervet; strong enthusiasm
- ardent
- to persuade using flattery or gentle urging
- cajole
- harmful to one's health, mind, or morals; corrupting
- noxious
- insignificant; worthless
- paltry
- heavenly, not of this world; airy; intangible
- ethereal
- accidental good fortune; occuring by chance; serendipitous
- fortuitous