English 9 Honors Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary words with definitions for English 9 Honors final exam review.

Daunt

To overcome with fear; intimidate.

Dote

To bestow excessive love or fondness.

Exuberance

The state of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness.

Substantiate

To provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.

Gaunt

Lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.

Beget

To bring a child into existence; to cause or produce.

Chafe

To rub against something, causing friction or irritation.

Desist

To cease or abstain from doing something; to stop.

Bilk

To cheat or defraud someone.

Demise

The death of a person; the end or failure of something.

Impede

To delay or prevent someone or something by obstructing them; hinder.

Ghastly

Shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible.

Blatant

Done openly and unashamedly; obvious.

Desolate

Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Affiliate

Officially attached or connected to an organization.

Pacify

To quell the anger, agitation, or excitement of.

Flagrant

Conspicuously or obviously offensive.

Fracas

A noisy disturbance or quarrel.

Immaculate

Perfectly clean, neat, or tidy.

Facade

The front of a building; a deceptive outward appearance.

Eerie

Strange and frightening.

Aplomb

Self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation.

Guile

Sly or cunning intelligence.

Rancid

Smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Simile

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Rhyme

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

Personification

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Stanza

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Repetition

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.