Vocabulary Lists

Vocabulary

We will be learning and incorporating 30 vocabulary words into our classroom dialogue throughout the term. Here is a running list to help keep track of all vocabulary. Update this sheet as the weeks and lists progress.

Example vocabulary entry:

• Vocabulary word (pronunciation): (part of speech) definition
• Collaborate (kuh-lab-or-ate): (v) to work together

List 1

• Acerbic (Uh-serb-ick): (adj) Sour or bitter
• Diffident (Dif-uh-dent): (adj) shy or lacking Confidence
• Gregarious (Greh-gar-e-us): (adj) Suciable; fond of company
• Quiescent (Kwee-s-cent): (adj) Inactive; at rest
• Mellifluous (Mel-if-flew-us): (adj) Smoothly flowing; sweet

List 2

• Guise (Guys): (N) Assumed appearance
• Acquiesce (AK-we-5): (V) Passively consent, or agree to
• Discursive (Dis-curse-iv): (Adj) Rambling form subject to Subject
• Nascent (Nuh-cent): (Adj) Just beginning to come into existence
• Rapacious (Ruh-pay-shus): (Adj) Greedy, grasping

List 3

• Ambiguous (am-big-you-US): (adj) Unclear; capable of having more than one meaning
• Egregious (E-gree-shus): (adj) glaringly bad
• Heinous (hay-nus): (adj) excessively evil
• Obstreperous (ob-strep-er-US): (adj) Unruly and boisterous
• Rhetoric (ret-or-rick): (n) the art of using language effectively

List 4

• Sanguine (San-gween): (Adj) Candifent, hopeful, optimistic
• Ominiscent (om-nish-ent): (Adj) Knowing everything.
• Ignominy (19-nom-uh-knee): (N) Dishonerable conduct, disgrace from a single act
• Erudite (air-E-uh-dite): (Adj) Scholarly; learned
• Antithesis (Anntith-a-sis): (N) Direct opposite

List 5

• Audacious (aww-day-shus): (Adj) Insolently daring; foolishly bold
• Ethereal (E-their-read): (Adj) Light, delicate; airy
• Implacable (implack-uh-ble): (Adj) Unable to be pacified; relentless

List 6

• Ostensible (On-Sten-syble): (Adj) Seems to be one thing while concealing another
• Temerity (Tuh-mar-uh-tea): (N) Rashness; reckless lack of fear