Unit One Vocabulary - English II

acious/cious

full of

carn

meat

co/col/com/con/cor/cum

with, together, comletely

dis

away from, apart

em/en

inside, within

fall/falls

deceive

for

away off; completely, utterly

soph

wise

loquacious

tending to talk a great deal; liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily
Ex: The ______ barber always told stories while cutting the customers’ hair.

tenacious

tending to hold strongly and firmly; unyielding

Ex. A ______ trainer, she sticks to a grueling training schedule.

pugnacious

inclined to quarrel or fight readily; combative; quarrelsome

Ex. The ______ dog was always eager to bite and bark at other dogs in the park.

carnage

the flesh slain of animals or humans

Ex. Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of ______.

carrion

dead and putrefying flesh

Ex. After all, their diet consists in art of ______, as opposums scavenge among carcasses as well as hunting other small animals.

reincarnation

rebirth in new bodies or forms of life

Ex. Lulu Wang remembers Nicole Kidman spiraling down a psychological rabbit hole in Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 dream-like masterpiece Birth where a woman believes that a 10-year-old boy is the ______ of her dead husband.

coherent

intelligible or understandable

Ex. Using transitions hels create a ______ progression of ideas within your body paragraphs.

collusion

conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or deceive others

Ex. The company was acting in ______ with manufacturers to inflate prices.

commemorate

to call to remembrance

Ex. On Memorial Day, we ______ those who served and serve in the military.

dispel

to remove fears, doubts, and false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary

Ex. Let me ______ your dears about having the flu — your problem isn’t nearly that simple!

dislodge

to remove, knock, or force someone or something out of a fixed, settled, or hidden position

Ex. Army commanders were preparing to ______ the military from the capital.

disband

to break up the organization of something

Ex. The school ______(ed) the program in early 2023 when the dean who created it left Virginia Tech and told the Supreme Court it would not be revived.

embodiment

characteristic or representative of

Ex. Children are the ______ of their parents hopes and dreams.

enthrall

to be held spellbound and to have all your focus and attention

Ex. ______(ed) by the flickering fire in the hearth, we lost all track of time.

engender

to cause to develop; to produce; to bring about; create

Ex. The new policies ______(ed) a sense of hope and optimisim in the community.

fallacious

misleading; deceptive; illogical

Ex. There are consumers who harbor the ______ belief that credit-card spending will never catch up with them.

fallible

liable to erroneous; capable of making a mistake

Ex. The truth is that leaders are quite mortal, ______ and imperfect.

falsify

to make false by mutilation or addition; to represent falsely; misrepresent

Ex. He was caught ______(ing) financial accounts.

forgo

to go without something

Ex. She is planning to ______ her right to a trial and simply plead guilty.

forlorn

bereft, forsaken; sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion: desolate

Ex. She was ______ when she found out the trip had been cancelled.

forsake

to renounce or turn away from entirely

Ex. I am forlorn because I have been ______ by my friends.

sophisticate

to alter deceptively

Ex. There’s no need to ______ something that is beautiful in its simplicity.

sophistry

use of clever by false arguments with the intention of deceiving

Ex. Today, no amount of ______ can sustain that claim.

Sophomoric

conceited, overconfident, and opinionated, yet poorly informed, immature, or lacking in good taste and judgment

Ex. Only people on a third grade reading level can find the ______ ramblings of the reporter to be appealing.