English Final Review 4

Vocab words

Extraneous

ADJ – Unrelated or unnecessary

Fabricate

V – To invent or create (often dishonestly)

Foster

V – To encourage or promote

Fragile

ADJ – Easily broken or damaged

Grapple

V – To struggle with something

Haphazard

ADJ – Disorganized or random

Hinder

V – To get in the way of

Hoard

V – To collect and keep too much

Hypothesize

V – To form a theory

Imaginative

ADJ – Creative and full of ideas

Incite

V – To stir up or provoke

Indifference

N – Lack of interest or concern

Indisputable

ADJ – Impossible to doubt

Indistinct

ADJ – Not clear or blurry

Inevitable

ADJ – Certain to happen

Ineffectual

ADJ – Not effective or useless

Infrequent

ADJ – Rare or not happening often

Inhibit

V – To prevent or hold back

Innocuous

ADJ – Harmless or not offensive

Insignificant

ADJ – Unimportant or tiny

Mandatory

ADJ – Required or must-do

Misanthropic

ADJ – Disliking people

Moribund

ADJ – Dying or near death

Moderate

ADJ – Not extreme or balanced

Multi-faceted

ADJ – Having many sides

Negligible

ADJ – Very small or unimportant

Neutrality

N – Not taking sides

Newfound

ADJ – Recently discovered

Novel

ADJ – New and unusual

Nuanced

ADJ – Subtle or with small differences

Observable

ADJ – Able to be seen

Obstinate

ADJ – Stubborn

Obsolete

ADJ – Outdated or no longer used

Oddity

N – Something strange

Offhand

ADJ – Casual or without preparation

Omnipotent

ADJ – All-powerful

Onset

N – The beginning

Oust

V – To force out or remove

Outstrip

V – To go beyond or be better

Overshadow

V – To appear more important

Paramount

ADJ – Most important

Paucity

N – A lack or scarcity

Perceive

V – To become aware of

Peripheral

ADJ – On the outer edge

Perpetual

ADJ – Never-ending

Persistent

ADJ – Continuing despite challenges

Popularize

V – To make widely known

Postulate

V – To propose an idea

Pragmatic

ADJ – Practical or logical

Precarious

ADJ – Unstable or risky

Preclude

V – To prevent something

Predatory

ADJ – Exploiting others for gain

Predetermined

ADJ – Decided in advance

Premeditated

ADJ – Planned beforehand

Presume

V – To assume something is true

Prevail

V – To win or be powerful

Preventable

ADJ – Able to be avoided

Probability

N – The chance of something happening

Proclaim

V – To announce officially

Profusion

N – A large amount of something