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Honors English 1B Wks. 6 - 10

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  1. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
  2. consign
    give over to another for care or safekeeping
  3. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  4. happenstance
    an accidental event that seems to have been arranged
  5. ken
    range of what one can know or understand
  6. nonchalance
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
  7. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  8. respite
    a pause from doing something
  9. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  10. vexation
    anger produced by some annoying irritation
  11. contend
    compete for something
  12. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  13. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  14. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  15. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  16. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  17. riposte
    a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying
  18. truculence
    stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
  19. vista
    the visual percept of a region
  20. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  21. cosmopolitan
    composed of people from many parts of the world
  22. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
  23. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
  24. legacy
    a gift of personal property by will
  25. orthodoxy
    the quality of adhering to what is commonly accepted
  26. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  27. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  28. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  29. wanton
    become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
  30. bauble
    cheap showy jewelry or ornament
  31. culpable
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious
  32. expediency
    the quality of being suited to the end in view
  33. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
  34. ludicrous
    inviting ridicule
  35. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  36. propensity
    a natural inclination
  37. scapegoat
    someone who is punished for the errors of others
  38. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  39. wheedle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  40. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  41. depravity
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  42. forestall
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  43. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  44. mandate
    a formal statement of a command to do something
  45. patina
    a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal
  46. pugnacity
    a natural disposition to be hostile
  47. spurious
    intended to deceive
  48. unbridled
    not restrained or controlled
  49. yammer
    talk or complain incessantly
Created on 三月 5, 2013

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