Honors ELA 10 Vocab Synonyms

Acuity

sharpness, perceptiveness, acuteness, keenness, awareness

Depraved

corrupt, perverted, degraded, degenerate, debauched, dissolute, immoral, vicious, vile

Esoteric

cryptic, arcane, recondite, obscure, mysterious, abstruse, inscrutable, incomprehensible, secret

Figment

invention, fancy, fantasy, delusion, illusion, phantasm, conceit, unreality

Garner

get, acquire, earn, secure, obtain, gain, attain, collect, accumulate, accrue

Ignominy

disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, mortification

Ubiquitous

everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, universal

Sophistry

deception, fallacy, misconception, inconsistency, paralogism

Idiosyncrasy

eccentricity, mannerism, peculiarity, trait

Reputed

alleged, assumed, putative, regarded, rumored, supposed

Mundane

banal, everyday, humdrum, normal, prosaic

Overweening

brash, cavalier, conceited, egotistical, haughty, highhanded, insolent, lordly

Penchant

affection, affinity, predilection, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, weakness

Nuance

distinction, gradation, hint, implication, nicety, refinement, subtlety

Sumptuous

luscious, luxuriant, magnificent, opulent, palatial, plush, swank