Advanced English I Semester 2 Vocabulary Flashcards

Unit #11 To Killa Mockingbird

• adamant (adj): Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind; inflexible; unwavering.
• acquit (v): Free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty; exonerate.
• arbitrate (V): To settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both.
• assuage (v): To lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses): ease.
• auspicious (adj): Favorable; prosperous.
• benign (adj): Gentle and kindly: not harmful to the environment.
• contentious (adj): Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial; (of a person) given to arguing or provoking argument.
• condescend (v): Show feelings of superiority; be patronizing; do something in a haughty way, as though it is below one's dignity or level of importance.
• entailment (n): Legal restriction upon who can inherit property.
• discernible (adj): Able to be discerned; perceptible.
• duress (n): Forcible restraint or restriction; compulsion by threat.
• erratic (adj): Not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
• expound (v): To set forth: state; to defend with argument; to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail.
• fatalistic (adj): Relating to the belief that events are inevitable.
• florid (adj): Excessively intricate or elaborate; ornate.
• furtive (adj): Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.
• imprudent (adj): Not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash; lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment.
• irascible (adj): Easily angered.
• morbid (adj): Characterized by an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
• placid (adv): (Of a person or animal) not easily upset or excited; calm.

Unit #12 To Killa Mockingbird

• predilection (n): Preference; tendency.
• ruefully (adv): In a way that expresses sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous manner.
• sordid (adj): Involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt; sleazy.
• spurious (adj): Not genuine; false; counterfeit.
• stolid (adj): (Of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation; calm, unexcitable.
• taciturn (adj): Usually silent.
• umbrage (n): Offense or resentment.
• ingenuous (adj): Innocent; naive; open and honest.
• expunge (v): To remove completely; to erase.
• vehemently (adj): With intense feeling; vigorously.

Unit #7 - \"American History\"

• anticipated (v): Eagerly expected.
• infatuated (adj): Briefly but intensely in love.
• enthralled (v): Captivated.
• devoted (adj): Loving, loyal, and concerned with another's well-being.
• elation (n): Great happiness and excitement.
• impulse (n): urge to act or do something.

Unit #8 - \"Fish Cheeks\" and \"With a Little Help from my Friends\"

• proximity (n): Nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation; closeness.
• correspondents (n): A person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc. to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place.
• interpreter (n): A person who interprets, especially one who translates speech orally.
• encapsulate (v):
  • Express the essential features of (something) succinctly.
  • Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
• appalling (adj.): Causing shock, disgust, or alarm.
• clamor (n): A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting vehemently.
• grimace (n): An ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement.

Unit #9 - \"Letter from Birmingham Jail\", \"I Have a Dream\", \"Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\"

• Prosperity (n): Good fortune, success.
• Hallowed (adj): Holy; sacred.
• Tribulations (n): Great trouble or miser.
• Redemptive (adj): Serving to deliver from sorrow; make amends or pay back.
• Oppression (n): Cruel or unjust treatment.
• Exalted (adj): Elevated.
• Activist (n): A person who fights for radical social change with radical methods.
• Radical (adj): Extremely different from the usual.
• Advocating (v): Arguing or acting in favor of an ideal.
• Idly (adv): Lazily; without taking action.
• Postpone (verb): Delay.
• Stagnation (n): State of being inactive and not moving or changing.
• Complacency (n): State of unthinking or satisfied acceptance.
• Yearning (n): Strong desire; longing.
• Languished (verb): Grown weak; lived under distressing conditions.