Year 12 VCE English - Vocabulary

Render

To cause or to become

Ameliorate

To make or become better ; To improve

Obsolete

Fallen into disuse ; No longer in use

Envision / Envisage

To form mental images of the future

Futile

Incapable and inabilities in producing any results ; Unsuccessful or ineffective

Dissapate

To scatter or to become scattered in various directions

Implore

To call upon a person in an urgent or humble matter

Reducing success or effectiveness

Exert

To use (power, abilities or influences)

To put into energetic actions or efforts

Denounce

To write or speak against

Monostrosity

A thing, especially a building which is very large

Encapsulate

To enclose in or as in a capsule

Opinions or interest shared ; Common ground

Purport

To say or claim

Appear to be or do something especially falsely

Credentials

A qualification, achievement, quality or aspects of a person's background.

Sued to indicate their suitability for something

Attains

To reach or complete by efforts ; Accomplishments

Credibility

Believable ; Trustworthy

Imperative

Not to be avoided ; Necessary

Related to the verb mood used in request and demands

Reputable

of good reputation

Prosper

To succeed, especially in terms of money.

Enjoying growth and success.

Prosperous

marked by good fortunes ; flourishing ; successful

counterproductive

Defeating the purpose; preventing the intended goal

Reducing success and effectiveness

Cultivate

Encouraging growth and development

Coerce

To compel or force to do something

To persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force

Entice

To attract or persuade by offering reward or pleasure

Belittle

Make something less important or little

Assert

To state as true ; declare

Affirm

to declare to be true, state positively; to confirm

Indulge

To give in to a wish or desire, give oneself up to

Allowing yourself or another person to have something enjoyable.

Scaremongering

Sharing stories that causes another to be frightened or worried

Vulnerable

Able to be hurt or wounded

Not protected against emotional hurts

Vicious

Cruel or spiteful

Unpleasing severe

Malignant

Deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious

Sneer

To look down on with scorn; to mock or insult by words or manner.

Prompt

On time; done without delay

Contradict

To speak against; to say the opposite

Consolidate

(v.) to combine, unite; to make solid or firm

Synonyms: strengthen, firm up, merge.

Refute

To prove to be false

Nonsensical

Having no meaning or making no sense

Testify

To give evidence or witness

Merit

deserving reward or praise

Vile

extremely unpleasant or highly offensive and objectable

vilify (vilification)

To speak evil of or to defame

Exacerbate

to increase the strength ; make worse

Appal (appalling, appallingly)

To strike with fear , filled with alarm and horror

Dismal

Feeling or causing deep sadness

Allege

to assert without proof or confirmation

Blatant

Actions intentionally obvious or undisguised

Subsidise

to pay part of the cost of something

admonish

(v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

vehemently

marked by intense force or emotion

Debunk

to prove wrong or make something less important

Disparage

to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner

Proliferation

an increase in number, multiplication or rapid increase

Berating

scold or criticize (someone) angrily

resplendent

Having a very bright and beautiful appearance

Effusive

Expressing welcoming, approval, or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling. I

Adulatory

to praise or admire excessively; fawn on

Jocular

humorous, jesting, jolly, joking ; intended to make someone laugh

Wistful

having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing

Dismissive

Showing little regard; scornful

Scathing

(adj.) bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm