Grade 12 Vocabulary List, Week of 02/24

Peroration

the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration; a highly rhetorical speech

Magnanimity

loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity

Baleful

deadly or pernicious in influence; foreboding or threatening evil

Incommensurate

not corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : not proportionate

Deleterious

harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way

Lucrative

producing wealth : profitable

Vituperative

uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse

Parity

the quality or state of being equal or equivalent

Palatal

of, relating to, forming, or affecting the palate

Sententious

terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression : pithy, epigrammatic