Vocabulary Enrichment Corner

1. Thursday, March 14 Today you will need: A pencil and a good attitude

2. 1-5 • Sojourn – temporary stay • Persevere - persist • Exuberant – lively • Tyranny – cruel dictatorship • Morbid – gruesome, grisly

3. 6-10 • Boisterous – noisy; disorderly • Adjacent – nearby, neighboring • Solemn – serious • Tentatively – uncertainly • Tranquil – calm

4. 11-15 • Subdued – tamed, quieted • Attributes – characteristics, features • Elusive – not easily found or understood • Ominous – threatening • Criteria – standards/measures used to judge

5. 16-20 • Affliction – distress, pain, misfortune • Invigorate – to give life or energy to • Flourish – to grow well • Reassuringly- to encourage or praise • Sentimental- soft hearted or emotional

6. 21-25 • Articulate – well-spoken • Differentiate – to perceive or create a difference between • Obsolete – no longer in use or current • Editorial - an opinion piece that usually appears on the editorial page of the paper. • incorporate – to join or combine into a single whole

7. 26-30 • Indicate - to point out or show • Piety – religious devotion • Prowess – skill • Incognito – with one identity concealed • Soliloquy – a dramatic form of conversation when a character talks to himself to reveal his thoughts to the audience

8. Honor’s Words 31-45

9. 31-35 • Exorbitant (adj.) – excessive • Espouse (v.) – to give one’s support to • Felicity (n.) – great happiness • Fickle (adj.) - inconstant, changeable • Idolatry (n.) - extreme devotion to a person or thing

10. 36-40 • Lament (v.) - to grieve for • Malignant (adj.) – evil, wicked • Pensive (adj.) - thinking deeply in a serious or sad way; thoughtful; reflective • Peruse (v.) - to look over • Unsavory (adj.) - offensive, unclean, morally bad

11. 41-45 • Epiphany - A sudden manifestation of the meaning of something or revelation • Posthumous – after death • Aloof – reserved, detached or unconcerned • Lewd – obscene and indecent • Fiasco – complete or ridiculous failure or disaster

12. English II 4th Quarter Word Wall

13. 1-5 • Atone- to make up for  • Bondage- slavery, any state of being bound or held down  • Cardinal- fundamental, chief, of basic importance  • Credible- believable  • Defray- to pay for 

14. 6-10 • Diligent- hardworking, industrious, not lazy  • Doleful- sad; dreary  • Fetish- object of obsessive concern or unreasoning devotion  • Ghastly- frightful, horrible; deathly pale  • Hamper- to hold back 

15. 11-15 • Harbinger- person or thing that signals what will follow  • Hew- to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to  • Impoverished- poor, in a state of poverty  • Incessant- never stopping, going on all the time  • Intricate- complicated; difficult to understand 

16. 16-20 • Lampoon- ridiculous or humorous attack on a person, group, or institution  • Lucid- easy to understand, clear; rational, sane  • Meretricious- insincere; vulgarly, showily, or cheaply attractive  • Nadir- point in the sky directly opposite the zenith and directly beneath the observer; lowest point  • Opportune- timely, suitable, favorable 

17. 21-25 • Posthumous- occurring or published after death  • Prim- overly neat, precise, proper, or formal  • Sardonic- grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic  • Skeptical- doubting, questioning  • Superfluous- exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess 

18. 26-30 • Supplant- to take the place of, supersede  • Taunt- to jeer at, mock  • Tenacious- holding fast; holding together firmly • Trivial- of little importance  • Zenith- point in the sky directly overhead; highest point