English 10 Vocab Honors

Conscious: awake, alert, aware of one's surroundings

Depravity: moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act

Versatility: ability to do many things

Dogmatic: arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs stubbornly opinionated

Artifice: deception; trickery

Erudition: the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship

joviality: cheerful and friendly: she was in a jovial mood

Dislodge: remove (forcibly); force out of a position; Ex. dislodge the food caught in his throat

Incorrigible: not able to be corrected; beyond control

punctual: happening or doing something at the agreed or proper time.

ravenous: very hungry; eager for whatever satisfies one's needs or wants

magisterial: having or showing great authority

galling: very irritating

scintillated: emit flashes of light; sparkle

necessitate: to require; to make necessary

abetted: to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing. Basically help

Titillated: excited; intrigued

garishness: showy; elaborate; bright

Coerced: to compel by force, intimidation, or authority

menagerie: place where animals are kept and trained; collection of wild animals

lofty: (adj.) very high; noble

loopholes:ways of avoiding laws or regulations

inadvertently:unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly

rational: reasonable

superfluous: unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

opaque: not letting light through

forgeries: a copy, a fake, not as good as the REAL thing

modest: quiet or humble in manner or appearance

deriding: to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock

apocryphal: of questionable authority or authenticity

fawning: displaying exaggerated flattery or affection

tacit: understood or implied without being stated

travesty: A bad imitation of; a perversion of

flummoxed: confused

apogee: the highest point

Dictium: a judge's ruling or statement

ponder: to think about

metamorphisis: change of form

bleak: depressing, discouraging, harsh, cold, barren, raw