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
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, plebeian, redress, wanton, altruism, ardent, microcosm, milieu, profess, lay/lie, periphery, volition, wistful, histrionic, innocuous, vociferous, aristocratic, magnanimous, nefarious, among/between, ironic, impotent, profane, irregardless
vociferous, aristocratic, magnanimous, nefarious, among/between, ironic, impotent, profane, Irregardless, sublime, subjugate, foment, depravity, duplicity/duplicitous, fastidious, expedient, extrapolate, abhor, conjecture, ignominy, prodigious, squalor, temperate/temperance, morose, vociferous, vindicate, surreptitious, obstreperous, pernicious, fastidious, punctilious, inexorable, expound, insidious, precipitous, incipient, alacrity, censure/censorious, peruse, exonerate, analyze, assess, compare, contrast, describe, discuss, evaluate, explain
The Arts: alliteration, simile, metaphor, free verse, sonnet, iambic pentameter
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
sanguine, sardonic, insidious, euphemism,
cogent, paradigm, august, vortex, quixotic, arable, hectare, potable, anthropogenic, salinizaion, reticent/reticence, rhetoric, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, consonance, simile, metaphor, homophone, hyperbole, anaphora, antecedent, chiasmus, abstract, gesticulate, introspective, recondite, petulant, abstinent, ingenuous, anxious, subordinate clause, credulous/credible/credence, paradox, utopia, renaissance, explicit, incessant, assimilate, precipitous, lucid, rudimentary, anachronism, fecund, temerity, furtive, iamb, trocheecaesura, blank verse, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, parochial, taciturn, unctuous, vitriolic, hypothetical, emulate, bane, ambivalent, solicitous, soporific, colloquial, ad hominem argument, allegory, aphorism, apostrophe, conceit, denotation, connotation, diction, agora, megaron, archetype, dissemble, indifferent, venerate/venerable, prodigious, tantalize, guile, protagonist, antagonist, hekatomb, titanic, asphodel, agon, pandemonium, didactic, euphemism, figurative language/figure of speech, metonomy, synecdoche, homily, loose sentence, periodic sentence, timeÕ, epithet, protean, hypocrisy, amulet, improvise, vainglory/vainglorious, maudlin, angst, metamorphosis, exigent, allegory, assiduous, loquacious, contemporary (noun), abstract (noun), noxious, dispassionately, arrant, agnostic, licentious, lassitude, perfunctory, dissolute, supine, limpid, , parsimonious, propitiatory, supercilious, laconic, taciturn, disapprobation, torpid
Look in EOS Part IV for: anxious, can/may, fewer/less, eldest/oldest, flout, flaunt, fortuitous, disinterested, refer, connive, conspire, compare with/compare to, comprise, infer, imply, allusion, illusion, effect/affect, shall/will, split infinitive, than/then, they, -wise
ALSO: relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, that, which, what, whoever, whomever, whatever, whichever)
Nominative (subject) pronouns: I, we, you, he, she, it, they
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Objective (object) pronouns: me, us, you, him, her, it, them
Possessive pronouns: my, mine, our, ours, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, their, theirs
Reflexive pronouns: myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves
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