Grade 12 Vocabulary List, Week of 02/10

Adjudicate

v. to make an official decision about who is right in (a dispute) : to settle judicially : to act as judge

Afflatus

n. a divine imparting of knowledge or power : inspiration

Aggrandize

v. to make great or greater : increase, enlarge

Aggrandize

v. to make appear great or greater : praise highly

Anarchic

adj. of, relating to, or advocating anarchy

Anarchic

adj. lacking order, regularity, or definiteness

Expatriate

v. banish, exile

Expatriate

v. to leave one's native country to live elsewhere

Expatriate

n. a person who lives in a foreign country

Expatriate

adj. living in a foreign land

Apocryphal

adj. of doubtful authenticity : spurious

Infallible

adj. incapable of error : unerring

Synod

n. an ecclesiastical governing or advisory council (esp. of bishops)

Precursor

n. one that precedes and indicates the approach of another

Devious

adj. straying from a right, accepted, or common course

Devious

adj. not straightforward : deceptive

Misanthrope

n. a person who hates or distrusts humankind

Renaissance

n. a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity (esp. 13th-17th century Europe)

Renaissance

n. rebirth, revival

Apposite

adj. highly pertinent or appropriate : apt

Paranoiac / Paranoic

n. an individual with excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others

Paranoiac / Paranoic

adj. of, relating to, affected with, or characteristic of paranoia

Redolent

adj. exuding fragrance : aromatic

Redolent

adj. evocative, suggestive