Vocabulary, Honors English I, Therien
*ALL* vocab.
Chpts. 1-12
Chpts. 1-12
Terms
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- punctilious
- very careful and exact, attentive to finer points of etiquette
- judicious
- having or exhibiting sound judgement, sensible
- unseemly
- not in good taste, improper
- foresight
- careful thought or concern for the future
- glib
- performed with careless , often thoughtless, ease
- civility
- politeness, an act of courtesy
- colloquial
- informal style of expression or conversation
- portmanteau word
- a word formed by merging the sounds of two words
- minutiae
- minor or trivial details
- prudent
- exercising caution, good judgement, or common sense in handling practical matters
- diligence
- constant earnest effort to accomplish a task
- malopropism
- A humorous misuse of a word
- provincial
- characteristic of people or things away from the capitol of a country
- systematic
- having a method or plan carried out in a step-by-step procedure
- spoonerism
- an accidental yet humorous distorion of words in a phrase because of the exchange of sounds
- selective
- careful in choosing, particular, discriminating
- meticulous
- extremely careful and precise, excessively concerned with details
- decorum
- appropriatness of behavior, propriety
- mores
- the accepted customs and rules of a particular social group
- coinage
- the invention of new words
- simile
- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds, uses like/as
- affix
- a word element, prefix/suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, root
- beguile
- to deceive or trick, to amuse or delight
- palindrome
- a word or phrase that reads the same backwords and forwards
- foolhardy
- foolishly bold or daring, rash
- ignoble
- not having a noble character or purpose, dishonerable
- fastidious
- difficult to satisy or please, exacting
- onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word that imitates what it sounds like
- acronym
- a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
- demeanor
- the way in which one behaves or conducts oneself