Unit 4: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Vulnerable: susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner
Soporific: tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
Sleazy: sordid, corrupt, or immoral
Grandiose: impressive or magnificent in appearance or style
Salutary: producing good effects; beneficial
Anomalous: deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Straitlaced: excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinions
Aggrandize: increase the power, status, or wealth of
Stalwart: loyal, reliable, and hardworking
Castigate: reprimand severely
Unit 5: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Transgress: infringe or go beyond the bounds of a moral principle or standard
Beneficent: generous or doing good
Caveat: a warning or caution
Crass: lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence
Erudite: having or showing great knowledge or learning
Precept: a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought
Aspersion: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something
Desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect
Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument
Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony
Transmute: change in form, nature, or substance
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
Unit 6: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Flout: openly disregard a rule, law, or convention
Insular: ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience
Desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect
Scathing: witheringly scornful; severely critical
Contraband: goods that have been imported or exported illegally
Autonomy: the right or condition of self-government
Vulnerable: susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm
Amorphous: without a clearly defined shape or form
Beneficent: generous or doing good
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner
Repudiate: refuse to accept or be associated with
Unit 7: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Disabuse: persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken
Propensity: an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way
Transmute: change in form, nature, or substance
Vicarious: experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Concoct: create or devise (a story or plan)
Remonstrate: make a forcefully reproachful protest
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Disconcert: disturb the composure of; unsettle
Surreptitious: kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
Scourge: a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering
Reverberate: have continuing and serious effects
Unit 4: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Vulnerable: susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner
Soporific: tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
Sleazy: sordid, corrupt, or immoral
Grandiose: impressive or magnificent in appearance or style
Salutary: producing good effects; beneficial
Anomalous: deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Straitlaced: excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinions
Aggrandize: increase the power, status, or wealth of
Stalwart: loyal, reliable, and hardworking
Castigate: reprimand severely
Unit 5: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Transgress: infringe or go beyond the bounds of a moral principle or standard
Beneficent: generous or doing good
Caveat: a warning or caution
Crass: lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence
Erudite: having or showing great knowledge or learning
Precept: a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought
Aspersion: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something
Desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect
Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument
Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony
Transmute: change in form, nature, or substance
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
Unit 6: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Flout: openly disregard a rule, law, or convention
Insular: ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience
Desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect
Scathing: witheringly scornful; severely critical
Contraband: goods that have been imported or exported illegally
Autonomy: the right or condition of self-government
Vulnerable: susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm
Amorphous: without a clearly defined shape or form
Beneficent: generous or doing good
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner
Repudiate: refuse to accept or be associated with
Unit 7: Vocabulary Words
Words and Meanings
Disabuse: persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken
Propensity: an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way
Transmute: change in form, nature, or substance
Vicarious: experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Concoct: create or devise (a story or plan)
Remonstrate: make a forcefully reproachful protest
Insurgent: rising in active revolt
Disconcert: disturb the composure of; unsettle
Surreptitious: kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
Scourge: a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering
Reverberate: have continuing and serious effects
