English 3 Honors 100 word Vocabulary Final review

Ascendency

(n) a rise in power and influence

Austere

(adj) without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

Beatify

(v) to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

Circumvent

(v) to bypass or go around

Coda

(n) concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes

Contentious

(adj) argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

Cull

(v) to take from a large quantity

Denote

(v) to name or give meaning to

Didactic

(adj): intended to teach or instruct

Elegy

(n) a mournful poem, especial one lamenting the dead; any mournful writing or piece of music

Endemic

(adj) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; restricted to that peculiar to that region; indigenous

Factor

(n) component or characteristic

Flag

(v) to sag or droop; to become spiritless, to decline

Importune

(v) to ask incessantly, beg, nag

Intrepid

(adj) steadfast, courageous

Libertine

(n) someone unrestrained by morality of convention or leading a dissolute life

Luminous

(adj) characterized by brightness and the emission of light, enlightened, clears

Pariah

(n) an outcast, a rejected and despised person

Perspicacious

(adj) acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

Plastic

(adj) moldable, pliable, not rigid

Predominant

(adj) most important or prevalent

Rail

(v) to complain about bitterly

Steep

(v) to saturate or completely soak

Aberrant

adj. deviating from the norm

Accolade

n. an expression of praise; an award

Adroit

adj. adept, dexterous

Audacious

adj. daring and fearless; recklessly bold

Archaic

(adj) outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time

Augury

n. omen, portent, the reading of omens

Axiomatic

adj. taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

Blithe

adj. carefree, merry

Chimera

n. an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

Brook

(v) to tolerate, endure, countenance

Dearth

n. smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack

Demur

v. question or oppose

Distrait

v. distract; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety

Divulge

v. to disclose something secret

Fallow

adj. untilled, inactive, dormant

Itinerant

v. to travel from place to place

Malleable

adj. capable of being shaped or formed, easily influenced

Nice

(adj) exacting, extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill

Obdurate

adj. unyielding, hardhearted, inflexible

Pluck

n. courage, spunk, fortitude

Supine

adj. lying on one's back, inactive, apathetic, mentally or morally slack

Voracious

adj. having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous

Abjure

v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Abrogate

v. to abolish or annul by authority; put down

Arduous

adj. strenuous, taxing, requiring sufficient effort

Boor

n. a rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel

Chary

adj. weary; cautious; sparing

Commensurate

adj. matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property

Connoisseur

n. an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

Contiguous

adj. sharing a border; touching; adjacent

Diatribe

n. a harsh denunciation; bitter verbal attack

Discordant

adj. conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound

Egress

n. or v. meaning exit

Ephemeral

adj. brief; fleeting, short-lived

Epithet

n. disparaging word or phrase

Extant

adj. existing, not destroyed or lost

Impecunious

adj. lacking funds; without money

Obtuse

adj. lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

Ostentatious

adj. characterized by or giving to pretentiousness

Philistine

n. a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic value

Precept

n. rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught

Reconnoiter

v. to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of

Alchemy

n. a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold; any magical wonderful transformation

Broach

v. bring up, announce, to begin to talk about

Canon

n. an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature

Convention

n. a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude

Empirical

adj. based on observation or experiment

Effrontery

n. extreme boldness; presumptuousness

Exhort

v. to encourage, to make urgent appeals

Forestall

v. to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent action; to circumvent or thwart

Implacable

adj. not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

Inherent

adj. ingrained within one's nature, firmly established, essential

Innocuous

adj. harmless; causing no damage

Peruse

v. to examine with great care

Picaresque

adj. involving clever rogues or adventurers

Plumb

v. to measure the depth (as with a plumb line), to examine critically

Rebus

n. riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words

Recalcitrant

adj. obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage

Static

adj. not moving, active or in motion; at rest

Succor

n. assistance, relief in time of distress

Superfluous

adj. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; extra

Table

v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

Amalgamate

v. to combine several elements into a whole

Ameliorate

v. to make better more tolerable

Auspicious

adj. Favorable, successful, prosperous

Chicanery

n. trickery or subterfuge

Culpable

adj. deserving blame

Damp

v. to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

Derision

n. scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment

Diffident

adj. reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

Dilatory

adj. causing delay, procrastinating

Felicitous

adj. apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos

Forbearance

n. patience, willingness to wait

Hubris

n. arrogant presumption or pride

Lumber

v. to move heavily and clumsily or with a rumbling sound

Soporific

adj. causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep

Stanch

v. to stop the flow of a fluid