Vocabulary Graphic Organizer

A comprehensive vocabulary review of 37 key terms and their definitions from the vocabulary graphic organizer.

Repungant

Causing a strong feeling of distaste or aversion

Revile

To speak about someone or something in a very critical or insulting way

Phantasmagoria

An exhibition of optical effects and illusions, or a constant shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined

Requite

To repay

Assimilate

To absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group

Scaffold

A support structure for new ideas

Behoove

Good to do

Intangible

Something you can't physically touch or see

Edifice

A large building or abstract concept

Obstinacy

Unseasonal stubbornness in opinions/actions

Efficacy

Treatment used to make a desired result

Haughty

Acting like you are better than others

Inauspicious

Showing signs of an unfavorable future

Vicissitude

A situation with unpredictable ups and downs

Utopia

An imaginary place where everything is perfect

Ignominy

Event that makes you feel ashamed or embarrassed

Sepulcher

A place of burial

Inquiry

A question that is part of an investigation

Sage

Someone or something that has a lot of wisdom usually from age

Scourge

Something that creates widespread damage

Eminence

A title for a person with power

Infamy

A notorious and disgraceful reputation

Unadulterated

Pure and absolute

Exhort

To incite by argument or advice; urge strongly

Antipathy

A strong feeling of dislike

Progenitor

An ancestor who started a family

Inscrutable

Something hard to understand or interpret

Prolific

One who has accomplished and created very much

Insubordination

Being disobedient to authority

Intimation

An indirect hint, or sight about something

Mutability

The ability to change

Ludicrous

So unreasonable or out of touch with reality that it is funny, or hard to take seriously

Caprice

Something seeming to be on a whim or changing suddenly

Depravity

Something morally wrong or bad

Abashed

To be ashamed of something that has occurred

Anathema

Something or someone that is hated

Expostulate

To disagree with something or argue against it