Unit Four: Honors English Vocabulary

Arduous

adj. difficult; laborious

Avarice

n. extreme greed

Vigilance

n. alert watchfulness

Disposition

n. mental/emotional outlook

Foppery

n. obsessive concern with appearance; mannerisms of a vain person

Obliging

adj. willing to do; accommodating

Unalienable

adj. unable to be taken away

Usurpations

n. wrongful enfringement

Perfidy

n. deliberate breach of trust

Redress

v./n. relief from wrong or injury

Agnostic

n. a person who doesn’t believe in God but doesn’t deny the existence of something higher

Affable

adj. friendly and pleasant

Acquiesce

v. to agree without protest

Impious

adj. lack of respect for religion

Infidel

n. a person who doesn’t accept a particular faith

Celestial

adj. relating to the sky

Refulgent

adj. shining brightly

Propitious

adj. favorable

Refluent

adj. flowing back

Pensive

adj. dreamily thoughtful

Placid

adj. not easily upset or excited

Scepter

n. an ornamental staff carried by rulers

Vitality

n. physical strength

Impelled

v. to drive or push forward

Heathen

n. someone who doesn’t belong to a widely held religion

Animosity

n. a strong feeling of dislike that displays itself through action

Perdition

n. a state of eternal punishment

Flagrant

adj. shockingly oblivious

Profundity

n. the quality or state of being in deep thought

Monotony

n. lacking in variety 

Scintillating

adj. animated; vivacious; shining brightly

Insidious

adj. intended to trick or deceive

Subjugation

n. to bring under control; enslavement

Infallibility

n. the quality of being absolutely trustworthy

Despotism

n. absolute power or control; tyranny

Salutary

adj. healthy; healthful

Unanimity

n. an undivided/a consensus agreement

Manifest

v. to make clear or evident

Alliance

n. state of being joined by a treaty

Invective

n. insulting word

Adversary

n. an enemy or opponent

Invoke

v. to call for with interest or desire

Eradicate

v. to remove/destroy

Extricate

v. to free from entanglement

Salacious

adj. lustful or lecherous

Penury

n. extreme poverty

Bulwark

n. defense wall

Innocuously

adv. not harmful

Insinuate

v. to suggest or hint slyly

Pertinent

adj. relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand