3rd Year Vocabulary 2010-2011

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3rd Year Vocabulary

poignant, ameliorate, resolute, transient, adroit, eminent, imminent, posterity, gravity, merriment, indolent, complacent, caricature, prudence, candid, fervent,former/latter, mutual/common, further/farther, zealous, utopia, renaissance, incessant, assimilate, explicit, precipitous, lucid, rudimentary, anachronism, fecund, temerity, furtive, abstract, gesticulate, introspective, recondite, petulant, abstinent, paradox, ingenuous, credulous, credible, credence, complaisant, plebeian, redress, wanton, altruism, ardent, microcosm, milieu, profess, lay/lie, periphery, volition, wistful, histrionic, subjugate, foment, depravity, duplicity/duplicitous, fastidious, expedient, extrapolate, abhor, innocuous, vociferous, aristocratic, magnanimous, nefarious, among/between, ironic, impotent, profane, irregardless, expound

The Arts: alliteration, simile, metaphor, free verse, sonnet, iambic pentameter, sublime

Foreign words & phrases: a propos, au courant, bete noire, carte blanche, de rigueur, deja vu, fait accompli, faux pas, idee fixe, joie de vivre, laissez-faire, outre, raison d'etre, rendevous, savoir-faire, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis, ad hoc, aficionado, al fresco, de facto, junta, manana, mea culpa, nolo contendere, non sequitur, quid pro quo, semper fidelis, sine qua non, status quo, sui generis, zeitgeist

1st Year Vocabulary REVIEW

[These words will be mixed into your vocabulary tests this year, so study & remember them -- if you are new, make cards for them this summer & learn them before September].

flora, fauna, indigenous, archaic, ardent, supercilious, indolent, rapacious, subtle, sardonic, usurper, obscure, invective, guile, scrupulous, elusive, magnanimous, benevolent, dubious, cryptic, solicitous, obscure, invective, guile, scrupulous, elusive, audacious/adacity, garrulous, adroit, artful, hapless, artful, accolade, archetype, languish, labyrinth, ramification, poise

These words are in the Common Usage Errors section of Wordsmart (pp. 272-275 0R pp. 336-341). Write the words on one side of your card and the ÒruleÓ on the other side. Know how to use the words correctly in a sentence.

all right, among/between, anxious, as far as...is concerned, as/like, biweekly, etc., can/may, capital/capitol, common/mutual, commonplace, compare to/compare with, different from, each other/ one another, equally as, fact that/that, farther/further, fewer/less, former/latter, if/whether, irregardless, lay/lie , presently; stationary/stationery; that/which; whether or not; WHO/WHOM
Plurals: both, criteria, media, phenomena
Singulars: criterion; each; either; every, everybody, everyone, etc.; medium; neither; none, no one, nobody, etc.; phenomenon

2nd Year Vocabulary REVIEW

humiliated, pernicious, vitiate, resolute, pedantic, eminent, indolent, sympathize, impugn, proficient, complacent, complaisant, pejorative, punctilious, inexorable, iconoclast, fervor, deference, obstreperous, tangible, surreptitious, merriment, mercantilism, legislature, bicameral, inveigh, sovereignty, sectionalism, infraction, prudent, transient, usurp, despot, candid/candor, relinquish, dissolution, appropriate, abdicate, prudent, nefarious, laud, facetious, perfidy, magnanimous/magnanimity, acquiesce, absolve, demagogue, plebeian, espouse, judicious, increment, genre, kinetic, harbinger, nepotism, querulous, altruism, mortify, chagrin, ameliorate, recrimination, turpitude, relegate, sardonic, paroxysm, posterity, ordain, redress, prescribed, ascertained, oblique, futile, vindictive, efface, diffident, vociferous, metonymy, iamb, trochee, iambic pentameter, personification, abridge, construe, disparage, hyperbole, infamous, blithe, acute, insolent, ardent, extricate, accost, address (verb), disdain, impotent, indignant, oblivion, oblivious, perturb, profane, proximity, reproach, zealous, quixotic, wanton, nefarious, guile, facetious, gravity, juxtapose, laud, ubiquitous, impotent, oblivion/oblivious, profane, proximity, perturb, address, reproach, juxtapose, adroit, opulent, axiom, aristocratic, insatiable, stoic, delude, felicity, consecrate, histrionic, sophomoric, innocuous, innate, empirical, milieu, microcosm, hiatus, sanguine, wistful, redolent, profess, proletariat, obsequious, encroach, irascible, subtle, affluent, periphery, willful, sublime, ironic, volition, ostensible, incongruous, nostalgia, amorphous, poignant, imminent, degenerate, stoic, caricature

Common Usage Errors: all right; among/between; anxious; as far as ...is concerned; as/like; biweekly (etc.); can/may; capital/capitol; common/mutual; commonplace; compare to/compare with; equally as; each other/one another; fewer/less; different from; fact that/that; farther/further; former/latter; irregardless; lay/lie; plurals & singulars; presently; stationary/stationery; that/which; whether or not