English II Honors Vocabulary List 14 Definitions

English II Honors Vocabulary List 14

• Bemused

  • Definition: Confused; bewildered

• Bourgeois

  • Definition: Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense

• Cerebral

  • Definition: Brainy; intellectually refined

• Contentious

  • Definition: Argumentative; quarrelsome

• Desultory

  • Definition: Without a plan or purpose

• Didactic

  • Definition: Intended to teach; morally instructive

• Ephemeral

  • Definition: Lasting a very short time

• Ethereal

  • Definition: Heavenly; as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether

• Fatuous

  • Definition: Foolish; silly; idiotic

• Frugal

  • Definition: Economical; penny-pinching

• Grandiloquent

  • Definition: Pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words to impress listeners

• Gregarious

  • Definition: Sociable; enjoying the company of others

• Histrionic

  • Definition: Overly dramatic; theatrical

• Imminent

  • Definition: Just about to happen

• Innocuous

  • Definition: Harmless; banal