Trimester English Test
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- colloquial language
- informal language that is not rude, but would not be used in formal situations.
- seditious
- resistant to lawful authority having the purpose of overthwoing an established government
- october
- the 10th month in our calendar but orginaly the 8th
- amnesty
- a general pardon for an offense against a governemnt in a general any act of forgiveness of absolution
- insular
- realting to characteristic of or situated on an isalnd narrow or isloated in outlook or experience
- eulogy
- praise
- stringent
- strict severe rigorously or urgently binging or compelling sharp or bitter to the taste
- loqu locu
- to speak
- didactic
- preechy
- sepulchral
- funereal typical of the tomb extremely gloomy or dismal
- xanthoma
- a tumor of skin made up of yellow mass or tissue cells
- occult
- to hide conceal eclipse
- rhetoric
- art of presuation
- precolate
- to pass through a filter
- hypocritical
- Of or practicing hypocrisy
- autonomy
- self governemnt political control
- invective
- insulting or abusive word or expression
- surmise
- likely idea that lacks definite proof
- dendrology
- the study of trees and shurbs
- contraband
- illegal prhibited
- approbation
- the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise offical approval
- paradox
- statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- octave
- eight notes in a scale or a tone 8 degrees above below another
- cryptographer
- one who decipher's codes
- elicit
- to draw forth bring out from some source (suchas another person)
- paraphase
- condience version
- terrier
- a small dog originally used by hunters to drive out animals that lives underground
- extricate
- to free from entanglements or difficulties to remove with effort
- biramous
- having 2 branches
- millennium
- a period of one thousand years a period of great joy
- ver
- truth
- diatrite
- rant
- equitable
- fair just embodying principles of justice
- aura
- that which surrounds (as atmosphere) a distinctive air or personal quality
- dendro dendri
- tree
- xanth/o
- yellow
- subjective
- pertaining to or constituting the subject of a sentence
- diatrite
- rant
- vapid
- dull uninteresting tiresome lacking in sharpness flavor liveliness or force
- jargon
- words specific to something thing
- aplomb
- poise assurance great self confidence prependicularity
- dediform
- having th shape of a tree
- unwiedly
- not easily carried handled or managed because of size or complexity
- gastro
- stomach
- pernicious
- harmful deadly
- meritorious
- worthy deserving recognintion and praise
- caveat
- a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
- ruby
- a precious red stone or a deep red color
- apathy
- without emotion
- preculate
- to steal something that has been given into one's trust to take improperly one;s own use
- amorphous
- shapeless withour definite form of no particular type or character without organization unity or cohesion
- unothodox
- not conforming to established belief or practice
- xanthic
- having a yellowish color
- ambiguous
- open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations;
- physiatrics
- the study of phyiscal therapy
- simulate
- to make a prentense of imitate to show the outer signs of
- tenous
- then slender no dense lacking clarity or sharpness of slight importance or significance lacking a sound basis poorky supported
- precipitate
- characterized by excessive haste
- soliloquy
- talking to oneslef part of a play where the character talks to himslef (like hamlet)
- ad hominem
- appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
- parrallel structure
- she puts nouns, verbs, phrases, thoughts, and so on into a similar form
- contraband
- illegal traffic smuggled good
- hackeyed
- used to often as to lack freshness or originality
- ramify
- to branch out
- verdict
- the formal decision of a jugde or jury
- inadvertent
- resulting from or marked by lack of attention unintentional accidental
- ingratiate
- to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others(sometimes used in critical or derodgaotry sense)
- rub
- red
- diction
- word choice
- paean
- song of praise
- agnostic
- one who believes we can't knpow if god exists or not he won't deny the possibilites
- perjury
- giving flase or misleading information under oath
- condescending
- showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority:
- ventrilquism
- the art of speaking so that the voice seems to not come from the speaker but somewhere else
- straitlaced
- extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct prudish puritanical
- colloquial
- informal language
- vitriolic
- bitter sarcastic highly caustic or biting (like strong acid)
- rubescent
- blushing
- decadence
- decline decay or deterioration a condition or period of decline or decay ecssive self indulgence
- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness power or wealth to build up or intensify to make appear greater
- syllogism
- argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises,
- interloper
- one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be intruder
- repudiate
- to disown reject or deny the validiy of
- denotation
- the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression
- allusion
- making a reference to another piece of writting or such
- rebellion
- orgainization against authority revolt
- extra terrestrail
- occuring beyond the earth like aliens
- terra cotta
- brownish red clay used in ceramic pottery
- octa oct octo
- eight
- a/ an
- not
- transcient
- lasting only a short time fleeting
- exhort
- to urge strongly earnestly
- terra incognito
- un unknown land
- nominal
- exsiting in name only not real too small to be considered or taken seriously
- pragmatic
- practical
- obloquy
- attack with words
- occult
- matter involving the supernatural
- circuitous
- roundabout not direct
- alliteration
- repeation of conseance sounds
- inscrutable
- incapable of being understood impossible to see through physically
- achromatice
- without color
- saracastic
- making fun in a statrical tone
- pedantic
- trival detail
- axiomatic
- self evident expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
- sleazy
- thin or flimsy in texture cheap shoddy or inferior in quality or charcater ethically low mean or disreputable
- inveigh
- to make a violent attack in words express strong desapproval
- philodendrom
- a tree climbing plant, often grown as an ornamental. literally means loving tree
- erudite
- characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly
- xanthous
- yellow
- drivel
- to let silva flow from the mouth to utter nonsence or childish twaddle to waster or fittter away follishly
- ex officio
- by virtue of holding a certain office
- crypt/o
- hidden
- octogenarian
- someone who's between 80 and 90 years old
- petulant
- peevish annoyed by trifles easily irriated and upset
- expiate t
- to make amends make uo for avert
- blazon
- to adorn or embellish to display conspicuously to publish or proclaim widely
- salutary
- benefical helpfull healthful wholesome
- acculuration
- the modification of the social patterns trait or structures of one group or society by contract with those of another the resultant blend
- connotation
- An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
- mediterrean
- surrounded by land
- pardox
- a statement or situation that seems unbelievable but is true a seeming contradiction or asurdity
- abyss
- a deep charm
- precipitate
- to fall as moisture to cause ot bring about suddenly to hurl down form great height to give distinct from to
- objective
- case specialized for the use of a form as the object of a transitive verb or of a preposition, as him in The boy hit him, or me in He comes to me with his troubles.
- transcend
- to rise above or beyond exceed
- amorphous
- without shape
- hiatus
- a gap opening break (in the sense of having an element missing)
- unctous
- excessively smooth or smug trying too hard to give an impression if earnestness sincerity or piety fatty oily pliable
- anaphora
- repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences
- scourage
- a cause of affliction of suffering a source of severe punishment or criticism
- lassitude
- weariness of body or ming lack of energy
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed or called back
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive vulagr or low (especially in language) foul mouthed
- enjion
- to direct or order to prescribe a course of actiopn in an authoritative way tp rohibit
- noncommittal
- nor decisive or definite unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no
- resilient
- able to return to an orginal shape of form able to recover quickly
- intercede
- to plead on behalf of someone else to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement
- affable
- courteous and pleasant sociable easy to speak to
- ferment
- to be in or work into sucha state to produce alchol by chemical action
- scathing
- bitterly severe withering causing great harm
- paraody
- making fun of
- homily
- serman
- soporific
- something that induces sleep
- verify
- to confirm to prove true
- proclivity
- a natural or habitual inclination oir tendency ( especially of human character pr behavior)
- umbrage
- shade cast by trees foliage giving shade an overshadowing influence or power offense resentment a vague suspicion
- sangfroid
- composure or coolness esoecially trying circumsatnces
- catharsis
- purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
- epitome
- a summary condensed account an instance that represents a large reality
- gastronomy
- the art of good eating
- coalition
- a combination union or merger for some specific purpose
- surmise
- to think or believe without certain supporting evidence to conjecture or guess
- ramification
- the result of consequence of a decsion or action branching out
- erudite
- scholarly learned bookish pedantic
- personifaction
- giving human like qualities to an animal
- gastrectomy
- the surgical removal of the stomach or part of it
- metaphysics
- philosophy dealing witht he nature of reality
- intrinsic
- belinging to someone or something by it very nature essential inherent originating in a bodily organ or part
- perturd
- to disturb or agitate
- precept
- a rule of conduct or action
- analogy
- referencing to kind of
- querulous
- peevish complaining fret ful
- empathic
- , pertaining to, or characterized by empathy: a sensitive, school counselor.
- litote
- double emphasis (negative)
- aver
- to delcare as true
- occult
- mysterious maigcal supernaturl secret hidden from view not detectable or ordinary means
- sedulous
- persistent showing industry and determination
- loquacious
- very talkative
- scourage
- to whip punish severely
- soporific
- tending to cause sleep relating to sleepiness or lethargy
- reverberate
- to re-echo resound to reflect or to be reflected repeatedly
- belligerent
- hostile and aggressive
- precipitate
- moisture the product of an action or process
- expostulate
- to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
- rubric
- a rule or conduct or procedure (we use them as rule for grading) also a cook title in red decorative lettering
- jaded
- wearied worn-out dulled (in the sense of being satiated by escessive indulgence)
- octagon
- figure/ polygon with8 sides
- prerogative
- a special right or privikege a special quality showing excellence
- adventitious
- resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character accidental not essential (medicine) acquired not congential
- ferment
- a state of great excitemnet agitation or turbulence
- oxymoron
- shoft shell oppisites
- bombastic
- pompous overblowing in language full in hihg- sounding word intended to conceal a lack of ideas
- terr terra terri
- earth brown
- dox
- belief or praise
- lurid
- causing shock horror or revulsion sensational plae or sallow in color terible or passionate in intensiy or lack or restraint
- expedite
- to make easy cause to progress faster
- rubella/ rubeole
- german measles characterized by red sopts on the skin
- subordinate clause
- will contain both a subject and a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence.
- antebellum
- existing before war
- crypt
- an undergrounf room or vault
- gossamer
- thin light delicate insubstantial
- abominate
- to have an intense dislike or hatred for
- bell
- war
- innuendo
- a hint indirect suggestion or reference (often in a derogaotry sense)
- foil
- putting oppisites together
- provincial
- a person with a narrow point of view a person from a outlying area a soldier from a province or colony
- callow
- without experience immature not fully devolped lacking spohisticationand poise without feathers
- flout
- to mock treat with contempt
- commiserate
- to sympathize with have pitty or sorrow for share feeling or distress
- gossamar
- a very thin light cloth
- provincial
- pretaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook countrifies in the sense of being limited and backward of a simple plain design that originated in the countryside
- ameliorate
- to improve make better correct a flaw or shortcoming
- ELOQUENT
- vividly expressive fluent
- metaphor
- smilie without like or as
- fractious
- tending ro be troublesome unruly quarrelsome contrary unpredictable
- transcient
- one who stays only a short time
- permeate
- to spread through penetrate soak through
- remonsrate
- to argue or plead with someone against something proest against object to
- propensity
- a natural inclination a predilection toawrd
- physi/o
- life
- anecdote/anecdotalo
- story
- wheedle
- to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
- infringe
- to violate trespass go beyond recognized bounds
- euphemism
- the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh
- cryptic
- having a hidden meaning secret odscure
- ram rami
- branch
- infer
- to find out by reasoning to arrive ata conculsion on the basis of thought to hint suggest imply
- apostrophe
- a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply.
- assugae
- to make easier or milder, relieve to quiet calm to put an end to appease satisy quench
- archaic language
- that were used regularly in a language, but are now less common are archaic.
- satire
- makingfun of something
- drivel
- saliva or mucusflowing from the mouth or nose foolish aimless talk or thinking nonsence
- ascribe
- to assign to refer to (as a cause of source) attribute
- eqiquany
- sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
- antecedent
- story
- flich
- to steal especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts