English III Vocab List
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- Serendipity
- Making fortunate discoveries by accident
- Zenith
- The highest point
- Cleave
- To split, also, to cling
- Abject
- At a low state
- Faux Pas
- A social blunder
- Dearth
- A lack of
- Panache
- dash, verve
- Ineffable
- Incapable of being expressed
- Facetious
- Playfully jocular
- Pliant
- Bendable
- Adulate
- To admire excessively
- Affinity
- A natural liking for
- Amorphous
- Able to morph into different shapes
- Commensurate
- Of the same standard as another
- Corpulent
- Fat
- Obdurate
- Stubborn
- Perfunctory
- Done routinely with little care
- Benign
- Harmless
- Enervate
- to weaken
- Imminent
- coming soon
- Eminent
- standing above others
- Prosaic
- dull
- Peremptory
- Putting an end to debate
- Nefarious
- imfamously wicked
- Epiphany
- A sudden comprehension of reality
- Cavalier
- a gentleman
- Resolute
- firm and unwavering; determined
- Spurious
- seemingly real or genuine
- Eclectic
- Selecting from varied sources
- Collusion
- Secret meeting to plot
- Unbridled
- unrestrained
- Copious
- Abundant
- Cataclysmic
- consiting of a violent change, such as a flood or earthquake
- Obsequious
- too eager to please
- Diatribe
- a bitter statement towards a certain person or group
- Prudent
- careful to avoid errors
- Morose
- sullen, gloomy
- Implicit
- implied; understood
- Sagacious
- wise
- Glean
- to collect
- Exacerbate
- to worsen
- Iniquity
- a sin
- Nepotism
- to act of hiring relatives over others
- Penultimate
- second to last
- Iconoclastic
- Rebellious
- Vacillate
- to waver
- Capacious
- spacious
- Duplicity
- decption in speech or conduct
- Melee
- a brawl or fight
- Incredulous
- Refusing belief; skeptical
- Laborious
- Requiring much labor
- Abscond
- To get away from the scene of the crime
- Acrimonious
- bitterly sarcastic
- Antipathy
- Hatred
- Manifesto
- an official declaration of an organized group
- Minutia
- small detail
- Loquacious
- talkative
- Prodigious
- enormous in size or quantity
- Venerate
- to praise or admire
- Prognosis
- a prediction or forecast
- Bravado
- false bravery
- Truncate
- to reduce
- Redundant
- unneccessarily repetitive
- Pandemonium
- chaos; an uproar
- Sequester
- to place apart; to separate
- Chasm
- an opening in the earth's surface
- Jaded
- world-weary; cynical
- Capricious
- unpredictable
- Trepidation
- apprehension
- Ubiquitous
- omnipresent
- Nominal
- so slight as to be hardly worth naming
- Exhort
- to urge by earnest appeal
- Fallacious
- deceptive
- Lucid
- easily understood
- Indolent
- idle, inactive
- Ruminate
- To ponder
- Contentious
- quarrelsome
- Plethora
- a variety
- Ephemeral
- Lasting only a short time
- Efficacious
- efficient
- Foray
- to venture out to raid
- Juxtapose
- to put contrasting things next to each other
- Milieu
- a niche
- Immutable
- not changing or altering
- Leery
- suspicious
- Lacerate
- to cut or tear
- Impromptu
- not planned
- Acclimate
- To adapt
- Corroborate
- to confirm or support
- Insatiable
- can't be satisfied
- Reverie
- daydream
- Feign
- To fake or pretend
- Unremitting
- not stopping
- Insidious
- causing harm
- Gesticulate
- to make gestures
- Invincible
- cannot be defeated
- Pariah
- a social outcast
- Tacit
- inferred
- Flagrant
- notorious
- Parable
- a short tale with a lesson
- Impetus
- incentive
- Expansive
- able to expand
- Vapid
- boring
- Ambiance
- atmosphere
- Raze
- to destroy, esp. a building
- Incendiary
- inciting riot
- Truculent
- cruel
- Finesse
- subtle skill or style
- Imbue
- to drill into the mind
- Compliant
- willing to comply
- Incisive
- Sharp or penetrating
- Comport
- to conduct oneself
- Recant
- to withdraw a formally held belief
- Paradigm
- a pattern or example
- Daunted
- intimidated
- Curtail
- to cut short
- Engender
- to produce
- Innocuous
- having no harmful qualities
- Ambivalent
- having contradictory emotions
- Demure
- modest; coy
- Aesthetics
- relating to the arts
- Misogyny
- Hatred of women
- Myriad
- a large number of something
- Erratic
- irregular
- Veracity
- a real statement, thing,
- Pristine
- pure, uncontaminated
- Rendezvous
- a meeting or appointment
- Effervescence
- to have lively spirits; bubbly
- Ingenuous
- innocent; artless
- Deviation
- a course different from the norm
- Utopia
- paradise
- Indict
- to charge with a crime
- Optimum
- a most efficient
- Harry
- To harrass
- Virtuoso
- an extremely talented musician
- Thespian
- an actor
- Lackluster
- dull
- Fortuitous
- occurring by chance; lucky
- Arid
- dry
- Abeyance
- a suspension
- Avant-Garde
- a style ahead of one's time
- Quandary
- A problem
- Aggrandize
- to make larger
- Maverick
- a rebel
- Refurbish
- to renovate
- Prodigal
- wastefully extravagant
- Nuance
- a slight degree of difference
- Adamant
- Impervious
- Nirvana
- heaven
- Infirmity
- a weakness
- Sporadic
- having no pattern; occurring at intervals