ALL vocab for Lit 2

avarice

greed; desire for wealth

furtive

stealthy, secretive

bacchanalian

wild and drunken

extradite

to turn over or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority

copious

numerous; large in quantity

irascible

easily angered

mercenary

a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.

bastion

a strong defense of fort (or one likened to it)

jettison

to cast overboard; to discard

ostracize

to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent

heresy

the crime of holding beliefs that go against established doctrines, particularly in religion.

ant: orthodoxy

docile

easily managed or controlled; submissive/ easy to teach

syn: submissive, compliant

ant: unmanageable, willful

libation

a drink especially an alcoholic one

syn: intoxicant

anathema

1. A hated, repellant person or thing

2. a formal curse 1syn: abhorration, detestation 2syn: condemnation 1ant: beloved 2Ant: blessing, praise

banter

teasing; playful conversation

syn: joshing, badinage, raillery

castigate

to criticize or punish severely

syn: reprimand, chastise, scold

ant: praise

gauche

lacking social graces; tacless

syn: awkward

ant: graceful

ignominy

public shame, disgrace, or dishonor

syn: disgraceful, infamy

motley

made up of dissimilar parts, being of many colors

syn: varied

ant: uniform, homogeneous, similar

Noun

Person, place or thing

Pronoun

takes place of noun in sentence EX: it, I, you, he, she, them, who, what, everyone, which, that

Verb

action word/ state of being EX: sing, swim, want, believe, give, think

TO BE: are, am, be, being, been, was, were, is

HELPING verbs

works with main verb to form a verb phrase with a certain mood, tone, tense or other grammatical aspect

EX: will, shall, could, would, must, may, might, should auxiliary verbs that

Adjectives

descibe nouns

EX: blue, happy his, crazy, smelly, interesting, that

adverb

modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb

EX: quickly, very, well, silently, often, here, really

prepostition

shows relationship between 2 nouns

EX: up, over, under, beside, before, between, above, beyond, to, for

conjunction

joins, words, phrases, or clauses

EX: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS) either/ or neither/ nor

Aticles

identifies/ specify a noun

EX: a, an, the

Interjections

express emotion

EX: oops, whoops, ouch, eek, woah, hey, hooray

emaciated

extremely thin or weak; wasted away, especially because of illness or lack of food