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Vocab List 1

Vocab List 1. BW. The focus on the battle’s effects on Heorot and its furnishings primarily serves to emphasize ( A) the monetary losses the Danes are incurring ( B) the intensity of the struggle between Beowulf and Grendel

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Vocab List 1

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  1. Vocab List 1

  2. BW The focus on the battle’s effects on Heorotand its furnishings primarily serves to emphasize (A) the monetary losses the Danes are incurring (B) the intensity of the struggle between Beowulf and Grendel (C) Beowulf’s disregard for Hrothgar’s prized mead-hall (D) Grendel’s determination to completely destroy Heorot (E) the poet’s unwillingness to describe the gruesomeness of the actual struggle

  3. 1. de Down Decline (v.) Decamp (v.) Depraved (adj.) Demur (v.)

  4. Demur To demur is to object politely. In the face of majority opinion, she nevertheless demurred.

  5. 2. punct Point Punctual (adj.) Puncture (v.) Punctilious (adj.) Poignant (adj.)

  6. Poignant Poignant means sharp. The poignant parting left the two lovers heartbroken.

  7. 3. tude State of Latitude (n.) Longitude (n.) Lassitude (n.) Solitude (n.)

  8. Lassitude Lassitude is sluggishness or lack of energy. Gradually, the dinner party guests roused themselves from their steak-induced lassitude.

  9. 4. pre Before Prehistoric (adj.) Prelapsarian (adj.) Prenatal (adj.) Prenuptial (adj.)

  10. Prelapsarian Prelapsarian means before the fall (big mistake/ lapse) of mankind; Edenic Pastoral poems sometimes present country life in an almost prelapsarian fashion.

  11. 5. ad To Adduce (v.) Adhere (v.) Admonish (v.) Advertise (v.)

  12. admonish To admonish means to warn. The mother admonished the toddler not to touch the hot stove.

  13. 6. hend Grasp Apprehend (v.) Apprehensive (adj.) Comprehend (v.) Prehensile (adj.)

  14. 7. Apprehensive Apprehensive means uneasy, fearful. Beowulf was not apprehensive about fighting the demon.

  15. 7. pro Before Prodigious (adj.) Progress (v.) Protract (v.) Protrude (v.)

  16. Prodigious Prodigious means enormous or abnormal. Grendel is a prodigious being.

  17. 8. in Not Indignant (adj.) Insensible (adj.) Intelligible (adj.) Interminable (adj.)

  18. Indignant Indignant means feeling or showing scornful anger or a sense of injured pride. The celebrity gave the hostess an indignant reply and flounced out when told the restaurant was not taking any more reservations.

  19. 9. dol Suffer Doleful (adj.) Dolorous (adj.) Condolence(n.) Indolent (adj.)

  20. Indolent Indolent means lazy. The new hires were informed that indolence would not be tolerated; they would be terminated if they did not meet productivity for three consecutive months.

  21. 10. per Through Peremptory(adj.) Perforate (v.) Permeate (v.) Perspicacious (adj.)

  22. Peremptory Peremptory means direct, almost to the point of rudeness. The hostess’ peremptory reply to the spoiled celebrity was “we seat on a first-come, first- served basis; fame does not guarantee you a reservation.”

  23. 11. ag To do Aggressive (adj.) Ambiguous (adj.)

  24. Ambiguous Ambiguous means having an obscure or double meaning. The poem Beowulf is ambiguous as to whether its reference point is Christian or pagan.

  25. 12. val Strength/worth Ambivalent (adj.) Valiant (adj.) Valor (n.) Value (n. or v.) Evaluate (v.)

  26. Ambivalent Ambivalent means having opposing or contradictory feelings about something. Some of the seniors felt ambivalent about graduating; on the one hand, they were eager for independence. On the other, they were saddened to leave childhood behind.

  27. 13. ous Full of Fractious (adj.) Insidious (adj.) Rapacious (adj.) Zealous (adj.)

  28. Fractious Fractious means irritable or peevish. A long nap cured the toddler’s fractious behavior.

  29. 14. lent Full of Opulent (adj.) Succulent (adj.) Truculent (adj.) Violent (adj.)

  30. Opulent Opulent means luxurious. We took a tour of the opulent mansions at Newport, Rhode Island.

  31. 15. put Think Dispute (v.) Impute (v.) Putative (adj.) Reputation (n.)

  32. Putative Putative means reputed or supposed (showing doubt) The audience doubted the speaker’s putative background as a CIA agent.

  33. 16. moll Soft Mollify (v.)

  34. Mollify To mollify is to appease or pacify, especially by reducing the severity of something. The court mollified the juvenile offender’s family by setting aside his sentence and assigning community service.

  35. 17. greg Group Egregious (adj.) Gregarious (adj.)

  36. Gregarious Gregarious means fond of company; social. The gregarious undergrad enjoyed sorority life.

  37. 18. alter Other Altercation (n.) Altercatiori (n.) Alter ego (n.) Alternative (n.)

  38. Alter ego An alter ego is a person’s secondary or alternative personality. In literature, the antagonist is often the protagonist’s symbolic alter ego.

  39. 19. ego I Ego (n.) Egocentric (adj.) Egotistical (adj.) Alter ego (n.)

  40. Egocentric Egocentric means self-centered. Egotistical people are often accused of thinking the world revolves around them.

  41. 20. ambi Both Ambiance (n.) Ambiguous (adj.) Ambidextrous (adj.) Ambivalent (adj.)

  42. ambidextrous Ambidextrous refers the ability to use both hands equally well. At first they thought the boy was right-handed, then left-handed, and finally they realized he was ambidextrous.

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