ELA Vocab - Test 1

Hood English 10

Aspire

(v) to strive for a goal; to want or desire something excellent or far beyond the current state

Bilatreral

(adj) having two sides

Candor

(n) honesty or straightforwardness, especially being honest about something unpleasant

Defraud

(v) to cheat; to gain something dishonestly, as through a lie, deception, or confidence game

Deity

(n) a god or goddess

Elude

(v) to escape from someone or something giving chase or searching; especially to se clever tactics to escape from pursuers

Fixture

(n) a permanency; a person or thing remaining fixed, in the same position

Handwriting

(n) the character or style of a person’s writing by hand; cursive writing

Havoc

(n) chaos or large-scale destruction

Imbibe

(v) to drink a liquid; to absorb or take in something

Juncture

(n) a joint or seam, where two parts meet

Kernel

(n) in a plant, a grain or see; often edible and found inside the plant

Lapse

(n) the act of falling from a righteous or just position; a slight or temporary moral failure

Malady

(n) a disease, illness, or medical condition, especially a serious or chronic one

Myriad

(n) many; a large number, countless

Necessitate

(v) to make something necessary

Nestle

(v) to lay or be enclosed comfortably; to snuggle

Obliterate

(v) to destroy; to break down into nothing; to eliminate

Parse

(v) to break something down into its parts in order to explain or understand it; especially to break apart a sentence into words and phrases, describing each part

Queue

(n) a line; a group of people waiting in order

Ravenous

(adj) extremely hungry; filled with hunger that cannot be satisfied

Scuttle

(v) to sink a ship by creating a hole or holes in the ship beneath the water line; also to destroy or wreck

Thearchy

(n) a government ruled by the leaders of a religion or by the power of a god or gods

Underworld

(n) a world beneath or below the normal world, especially a criminal world such as mafia society or world of the dead such as Hades

Writhe

(v) to move uncomfortable, to twist around, especially to express pain