English XI - Vocab for Final

Abhorrence

noun: the act or state of despising something or someone.

Despondent

adj: feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.

Ennui

noun: A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction or boredom.

Omnipotent

adj: having virtually unlimited authority, power, or influence.

Procure

verb: to get possession of or obtain something by care or effort.

Repugnance

noun: a strong dislike, distaste, or antagonism.

Torpor

noun: a state of mental and physical inactivity with partial or total insensibility.

Uncouth

adj: awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior.

Wanton

adj: merciless, inhuman; without check or limitation.

Capitulate

verb: to surrender, often after a negotiation of terms.

Recapitulate

verb: to retell or restate briefly; to give new form or expression to.

Abrogate

verb: to abolish by authoritative action; to fail to do what is required.

Solicitude

noun: An attitude of earnest concern, care, and attention.

Mirth

noun: Gladness or gayety as shown by or accompanied with laughter.

Litany

noun: A lengthy recitation or enumeration; a sizable set or series.

Fatuous

adj: Complacently or inanely foolish; silly.

Saturnine

adj: Of a gloomy disposition.

Diffident

adj: Reserved; hesitant in acting or speaking because of a lack of self

Truculent

adj: Aggressively self

Tawdry

adj: Cheap or gaudy in appearance or quality; sordid and distasteful.

Bequeath

verb: To hand down; to give or leave by will, especially of property.

Scintillate

verb: To emit sparks; to dazzle or impress with liveliness or wit.

Abdicate

verb: To relinquish something formally; to renounce a throne, high office, duty or function.

Cursory

adj: Hastily and often superficially performed or produced.

Prolific

adj: marked by abundant inventiveness, productivity, or creativity.

Dodgy

adj: evasive, tricky, suspicious, or unreliable.

Furtive

adj: done in a quiet or secretive way; sly and stealthy.

Allude

verb: to make indirect reference to something.

Impinge

verb: to have an effect or impact, often negative, on someone or something; to encroach.

Anecdote

noun: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident.

Coquettish

adj: playfully flirtatious.

Shroud

noun: a burial garment; something that covers, screens, or guards

Incarnate

adj: given bodily nature and form; made manifest and comprehensible.

Equivocate

verb: to use false language especially with intent to deceive; to avoid committing oneself in what one says.

Punctilious

adj: showing great attention to detail or correct behavior.

Spate

noun: a large number or amount of something; a sudden rush or outburst.

Vigil

noun: The act of keeping awake when sleep is customary; a period of time when a person or group stays in place and quietly waits or prays at night.

Mortuary

noun: A place where dead bodies are kept until burial.

Incessant

adj: Continuing without interruption.

Meticulous

adj: Marked by excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details.

Verisimilitude

noun: The appearance of being true or real.

Promontory

noun: A rocky high point projecting into a body of water or a lowland area.

Typify

verb: To embody the essential or salient characteristics of something.

Snide

adj: False, counterfeit; slyly disrespectful.

Cortege

noun: A train or procession of attendants.

Archetype

noun: The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.

Respite

noun: A period of temporary delay.

Tremulous

adj: Characterized by or affected with trembling; affected with timidity or nervousness.

Aver

verb: to declare or state positively and emphatically.

Chimera

noun: an imaginary monster made up of different and inharmonious parts; a thing that is hoped or wished for, but is in fact not real or impossible to achieve.

Dilatory

adj: tending or intended to cause delay.

Discern

verb: to detect with the eyes; to come to know or recognize mentally.

Dogma

noun: some thing or point of view held as an established opinion; doctrine.

Fetter

noun: a chain or shackle which confines.

Expunge

verb: to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion.

Compunction

noun: anxiety arising from an awareness of guilt; a twinge of misgiving.

Vociferous

adj: marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry.

Irrevocable

adj: not possible to alter or take back.

Sylvan

adj: living or located in the woods or forest.

Apotheosis

noun: elevation to divine status; the perfect form or example of something.