Sophmore English Final Vocab

Expedience (n), expedient (adj), expediently (adv), expedite (v)

being fit or suited; practical; done for speed over quality

Pecuniary (adj), pecuniarily (adv; don't use this one)

related to money

Discourse (n), discourse (v), discoursed (adj)

communication; written or spoken debate/conversation

Husband (v), husband (n), husbandry (n)

use sparingly; save; conserve

Buffet (v), buffeting (adj)

to strike with force

Suffice (v), sufficient (adj), sufficiently (adv), sufficiency (n), sufficience (n)

to be enough; adequate

Dilapidated (adj), dilapidation (n), dilapidating (v), dilapidate (v)

run down, falling apart

Hew (v), hewn (adj), hewed (adj), hewer (n)

Split into pieces

Stealth (n), stealthy (adj), stealthily (adv), stealth (v)

quiet, secret, or sneaky behavior

Buoyant (adj), bouyancy (n), buoy (n)

Able to float; cheerful/happy

Requiem (n), requiem mass/song (adj)

A song or religious service for the dead or lost

Vigorous (adj), vigor (n), invigorate (v)

full of energy

Profane (adj), profane (v), profanity (n), profanely (adv)

showing contempt; unholy

Deliberate (adj-v)

Intentional (adj), discuss (v)

Frittered (v)

wasted little by little

Illusory (adj)

unreal or imagined; deceiving

Perpetual (adj)

eternal

Disconcerted (adj)

confused, upset, embarrassed

Delusion (n)

fantasy, false belief

Inevitable (adj)

unavoidable

Malevolent (adj) -\> malevolence (n), malevolently (adv), malicious (adj), maliciously (adv)

spiteful, showing ill will

Proximity (n) -\> approximately (adj), approximate (v), approximation (n)

nearness, closeness

Wan (adj) -\> wane (v), waning (adj), wanly (adv), wanness (n)

sickly pale, lethargic

Lethargic (adj) -\> lethargy (n), lethargically (n)

sluggish, without energy disinterested

Vulnerable (adj) -\> invulnerable (adj), vulnerability (n), invulnerability (n), vulnerably (adv), invulnerably (adv)

open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

Punctilious (adj) -\> punctiliously, punctiliousness

Paying strict attention to detail; extremely careful

Reproach (n) -\> reproach (v), reproaching (adj), reproachingly (adv), reprimand (v), reprimanding (adj), reprimandingly (adv)

to find fault with, blame

Supercilious (adj) -\> superciliousness (n),

proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority

Defunct (adj) -\> defunctly (adv), defunctness (n)

no longer existing or functioning

Feign (v) -\> feigning (v), feigner (n)

to pretend

Savory (adj) -\> savor (v), savoring (adj), savoringly (adv)

appetizing

Acute (adj) -\> acutely (adv), acuteness (n)

sharp, short, serious

Extemporize (v) -\> extemporization (n), extemporizer (n), extemporizingly (adv), extemporizing (adj)

to improvise

Fractious (adj) -\> fraction (n), fracture (v)

Tending to argue or cause discord

Distraught (adj) -\> distraughtly (adv), distraught (n), distress (n), distressed (adj), distress (v), distressedly (adv), stress (n), stress (v), stressful (adj), stressed (adj)

deeply upset and agitated

Corroborate (v) -\> corroboration (n), corroborating (adj), corroboratingly (adv)

to confirm, to support

Nebulous (adj) -\> nebula (n), nebulously (adv), nebulousness (n), nebulae (n)

hazy; vague; uncertain

Incredulous (adj) -\> incredulousness (n), credit (n), credit (v), credible (adj), credibility (n), credibly (adv), incredible (adj), incredibly (adv), incredibility, incredulity (n)

disbelieving, skeptical

Peremptory (adj) -\> peremptoriness (n), preempt (v), preempted (adj), preemptively (adv)

leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal

Ramifications (n) -\> ramify (v)

consequences

Scrutiny (n) -\> scrutinize (v), scrutinizer (n), scrutinizing (adj), scrutinizingly (adv)

close examination

Pandered (v) -\> panderer (n), pandering (adj), panderingly (adv)

gratify or indulge

Commensurate (adj) -\> none

corresponding in size or degree; in proportion; equal to

Traverse (n) -\> traverse (v), traversing (adj), traversingly (adv)

an act of crossing something, a crossing

Redolent (adj) -\> redolence (n), redolently (adv)

having a pleasant odor; suggestive or evocative; reminding; familiar

Addenda (pl.)/addendum (s.) (n) -\> add (v), adding (adj), adder (n), addition (n), additionally

Things to be added

Unvitiated (adj) -\> vitiate (v), unvitiate (v), unvitiatingly (adv), vitiatingly (adv), vitiated (adj)

uncontaminated, pure

Pneumatic (adj) -\> pneumatically (adv), all the lung stuff (pneumothorax (n), etc), pneumonia (n),

containing or operated by air or gas under pressure

Unpunctual (adj) -\> punctual (adj)

not on time; late

Rectitude (n) -\> rectify (v), rectified (adj), rectitudinal (adj), rectitude (n)

moral uprightness; righteousness

Pasquinade (n) -\> pasquinading (adj), pasquinadingly (adv)

a satire or lampoon

Provincial (adj) -\> province (n), provincally (adv)

narrow-minded; old-fashioned; BACKWARD; NARROW-MINDED; maybe even stupid

Indurate (adj) -\> indurately (adv), durable (adj), durably (adv),

to make callous

Propensity (n)

a natural inclination or tendency

Appalling (adj) -\> appall (v), appallingly (adv)

inspiring shock, horror, disgust

Ambiguous (adj) -\> ambiguity (n), ambiguously (adv), ambiguousness (n)

unclear

Prosaic (adj) -\> prose (n), prosaical (adj), prosaically (adv)

dull, boring, ordinary

Coherent (adj) -\> coherently (adv), coherence (n), incoherent (adj), incoherently (adv), incoherence (n)

logically connected

Discreet

careful

Haughty

arrogant

Apathetic

feeling or showing little emotion

Disdain

to regard with scorn, think smts stupid

Innuendo

(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

vehement

(adj.) intense, forceful, powerful

Cynical

doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives

Contemptuous

Feeling hatred; scornful

Apparition

(n.) a ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or unusual appearance

Oblivion

the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening

Euphemism

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

Condescending

patronizing (lowered myself to you because ur inferior)

ingratiated

(verb) gained favor from someone by flattery (meat rider)

juxtaposed

placed side by side

Erroneous

(adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes

Meretricious

attractive in a cheap, flashy way

Disconcerting

upsetting, frustrating, troubling

insidious

intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous

complacency

self-satisfaction, go along with anything

succulent

juicy

Ostracize (v) -\>ostracizer, ostracization, ostracizingly

(v.) to exclude from a group

Irony (n) -\>ironically, ironic

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning (unexpected outcome)

Qualms (n) -\>

Feelings of doubt (hesitations)

Aggravating (adj) -\> aggravate, aggravation, aggravated, aggravating

irritating; annoying

Exhibitionist (n) -\> exhibited, exhibitionaly

one who likes to show off and get attention

Monotony (n) -\> monotone, monotonous, monotonously

lack of variation

Psychoanalysis (n) -\> psycology, analyse

A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders

Unscrupulous (adj) -\> scrupulously

dishonest, immoral

Hysteria (n) -\>hysterically, hysterical

exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people.

Lavishly (adv) -\> lavish, lavished

characterized by a luxurious manner

Crude (adj) -\>crudly, crudness

not carefully or expertly made(unrefined)

Premature (adj) -\> mature, to mature, prematuration

Too early; happening or arriving before the proper time

Distinctly (adv) -\> distinct, distinction, distinctive, distinctively

clearly (easily seen)

Bourgeois (adj) -\>

middle class

Blasé (adj) -\>Blasely

tired of pleasures; bored

incipient-\> incipiently

beginning to exist or undeveloped

sepulcher-\> sepulcher(v)

tomb

pensive-\> pensively, pensiveness

(adj.) thoughtful but not abt happy things; melancholy

venerable

to respect

importunate

persistent, especially to the point of annoyance or intrusion

munificent-\>munificently

very generous

equivocal-\> equivocate, equivocation, equivocally

open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous