English 10 Vocab for Final

Fastidious

Attentive and concerned about accuracy and detail

Panegyric

A public speech or published text in praise of something

Ductility

Being pliable and flexible

Supercilious

Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

Assailed

Make a concerted or violent attack on

Insipid

Lacking flavor

Arch

A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening

Laconic

Using very few words

Asperity

Harshness of tone or manner

Obsequious

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Probity

Having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

Taciturn

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech

Dissemble

Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs

Profligate

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Copse

A small group of trees

Tincture

A medicine made by dissolving drugs in alcohol

protégé

A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person

Troglodytic

Something related to the characteristics of a prehistoric cave dweller

Balderdash

Senseless talk or writing

Apocryphal

A story of doubtful authenticity, but widely circulated as being true

Juggernaut

A huge, powerful, and overwhelming force or institution

Farrago

A confused mixture

Incipient

In an initial stage

Eddy

A circular movement of water, counter to a main current, causing a whirlpool

Carbuncle

A painful, deep-seated skin infection that develops when multiple boils merge together, A red gemstone

Ruminate

Think deeply about something

Ken

One's range of knowledge or sight

Denizen

An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place

Sedulous

Showing dedication and diligence

Ebullition

The action of bubbling or boiling

Dapper

Neat and trim in dress and appearance

Emulous

Seeking to emulate or imitate someone or something