English 2 Final Exam Vocab

Acrid

sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose.

Elicit

to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke.

Meager

deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate.

Racy

slightly improper or indelicate; suggestive; risqué.

Amble

walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.

Fallacy

a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief.

Meek

humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.

Retch

to make efforts to vomit.

Awry

with a turn or twist to one side; askew.

Fickle

likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable.

Neophyte

a beginner or novice.

Rile

to irritate or vex.

Bequeath

to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will.

Grimace

a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain.

Obscure

(of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain.

Sadistic

pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or gratification from extreme cruelty on others.

Curtail

to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

Haggling

to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner.

Paucity

smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness.

Saunter

to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll.

Debonair

courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm.

Haughty

disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious.

Pauper

a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.

Sheer

transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.

Defame

to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate.

Judicious

using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or political.

Poetaster

an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.

Snarl

to growl threateningly or viciously, especially with a raised upper lip to bare the teeth, as a dog.

Destitute

without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.

Knack

a special skill, talent, or aptitude.

Predicament

an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.

Tumultuous

full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar.

Dispensation

an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.

Lament

to feel or express sorrow or regret for.

Propensity

a natural inclination or tendency.

Vigilance

state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness.

Dubious

doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt.

Lurched

to make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements.

Qualms

an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction.

Vociferous

crying out noisily; clamorous.