Honors Junior English List 6 Vocab

adverse

Unfavorable, antagonistic, unlucky, harmful

affable

friendly, easy to approach

affinity

fondness, liking; similarity

bilk

to swindle or cheat

clichéd

overused, trite

coalesce

to unite or come together

denounce

to condemn openly or accuse formally

depict

to draw, portray

exacerbate

to make worse, to aggravate

flounder

to struggle awkwardly

gullible

overly trusting or naive

haughty

arrogant; snobbish

innate

inborn

loquacious

talkative

mollify

to soothe, to placate

ominous

menacing, threatening

perpetuate

to continue, to keep from dying out

pertinent

relevant

raucous

loud and rowdy

scrupulous

conscientious, painstaking