English 12 H Vocab Midterm Review 1
Studied by 0 people
Call Kai
Learn
Practice Test
Spaced Repetition
Match
Flashcards
Knowt Play1/31
There's no tags or description
Looks like no tags are added yet.
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced | Call with Kai |
|---|
No analytics yet
Send a link to your students to track their progress
32 Terms
Boon
A gift or blessing
Cajole
To urge, coax
Defile
To make unclean, impure
Effrontery
Impudence, nerve, insolence
Fastidious
Meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards
Grandiloquence
Lofty, pompous language
Hapless
Unlucky
Ignominious
Humiliating, discracing
Abrogate
To abolish, usually by authority
Rancor
Deep, bitter resentment
Sacrosanct
Holy, something that should not be criticized
Tacit
Expressed without words
Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere, widespread
Vacillate
To fluctuate, hesitate
Wanton
Deliberate and unprovoked violent acts
Zenith
The highest point, culminating point
Abjure
To reject, renounce
Blandish
To coax by using flattery
Cacophony
Tremendous noise, disharmonious sound
Decry
To criticize openly
Ebullient
Extremely lively, enthusiastic
Fallacious
Incorrect, misleading
Garrulous
Talkative, wordy
Hackneyed
Unoriginal, trite
Iconoclast
One who attacks common beliefs or institutions
Jubilant
Extremely joyful, happy
Laconic
Terse in speech or writing
Maelstrom
A destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects
Nadir
The lowest point of something
Obdurate
Unyielding to persuasion or moral influences
Palliate
To reduce the severity
Quagmire
A difficult situation
Note 
Flashcards (106)