Grade 12 Tier 2 words

Acolyte

An assistant, often in a religious context, who helps in the performance of worship.

Bibulous

Excessively fond of drinking alcohol or like absorbant

Coalesce

To come together to form one mass or whole.

Covert

Not openly acknowledged or displayed; hidden.

Declaim

To utter or deliver words in a rhetorical or dramatic manner.

Delineate

To describe or outline the precise scope of something.

Demagogue

A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.

Encomium

A formal expression of praise.

Obdurate

Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.

Prescience

The fact of knowing something before it takes place; foresight.

Sedulous

Showing dedication and diligence.

Trenchant

Vigorous or incisive in expression or style.

Utopia

An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

Valedictory

Serving as a farewell; especially in reference to a formal statement or speech.