VOCAB SEMESTER I, Grade 11
Terms
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- oxymoron
- figure of speech that produces a self-contradictory effect
- oblique
- something that strays off subject, but stays connected to main vocab; indirect
- enigma
- mysterious; hard to understand
- fulminate
- issue a thunderous verbal attack
- narcisscist
- self-love, vanity
- unsullied
- pure
- mirthless
- without happiness
- contumacious
- rebellious
- terse
- brief; to the point
- subcutaneous
- performed beneath the skin
- convival
- friendly; agreeable
- altruistic
- unselfishly concerned
- eminent
- prominent
- giddy
- dizziness due to being happy
- lumpen
- members of low class society
- nom de plume
- pen name
- espouse
- to take in a new idea and fully believe it
- snafu
- situation marked by error
- inundate
- to flood, overwhelm with ideas
- maw
- cavernness opening
- surfeit
- excessive amount
- protrude
- to project, thrust forward
- celibate
- obstains from sexual relations
- chaste
- pure; unsullied
- purport
- to profess meaning or intentions
- succor
- help, aid in assistance or relief
- sojourn
- temporary stay
- recondite
- not eadily understood
- eremetic
- characterized by solitude
- desicated
- to dry up, dehydrated
- crevasse
- deep chasm, fissure
- atavistic
- to reappear, a throw back
- incendiary
- person that excites quarrals
- rancor
- bitter resentment, hatred
- obsequious
- servile, brown nosing
- dollop
- small amount
- monomania
- inordinate, obsessive zeal, focused
- amicable
- characterized by good will
- clemency
- disposition to show mercy
- pensive
- dreamy, wishfully thoughtful
- recalcitrant
- resisting authority or control
- fatous
- foolish, silly
- inveigled
- manipulate
- crampons
- spiked iron framework attached to shoes
- dearth
- scare supply
- lambasting
- to beat; scold sharply
- rime
- layer of frozen dew
- abyss
- bottomless pit
- chutzpah
- boldness, daring, having audacity
- epiphany
- sudden realization of something
- volition
- act of resolving
- facticious
- bot spontaneous; made up
- calamitous
- disasterous, catastrophic
- blithely
- lightly, merrily, carefree manner
- idyll
- peaceful poem describing the country
- adamant
- utterly unyielding, stubborn
- autonomy
- self government
- prudent
- marked by sound judgement
- miasma
- obnoxious atmosphere
- modicum
- small portion
- feckless
- hopeless, not well considered
- rapture
- spiritual or emotional ectasy