Vocab Units 10-12

Front 1

Accrue

Back 1

Grow by addition

Front 2

Annotation

Back 2

The act of adding notes

Front 3

Bedlam

Back 3

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

Front 4

Covert

Back 4

Secret or hidden

Front 5

Debonair

Back 5

Having a sophisticated charm

Front 6

Dun

Back 6

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

Front 7

Efficacious

Back 7

Giving the power to produce an intended result

Front 8

Equanimity

Back 8

Steadiness of mind under stress

Front 9

Fortuitous

Back 9

Occurring by happy chance

Front 10

Gist

Back 10

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Front 11

Gratuitous

Back 11

Unnecessary and unwarranted

Front 12

Imperious

Back 12

Having or showing arrogant superiority to

Front 13

Invective

Back 13

Abusive language used to express blame or censure

Front 14

Motley

Back 14

Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Front 15

Munificent

Back 15

Very generous

Front 16

Procrastinate

Back 16

Postpone doing what one should be doing

Front 17

Provocative

Back 17

Serving or tending to excite or stimulate

Front 18

Recondite

Back 18

Difficult to penetrate

Front 19

Reprobate

Back 19

A person without moral scruples

Front 20

Sedentary

Back 20

Requiring sitting or little activity

Front 21

Abstemious

Back 21

Marked by temperance in indulgence

Front 22

Censurable

Back 22

Deserving blame it censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

Front 23

Contingent

Back 23

Possible but not certain to occur

Front 24

Corroborate

Back 24

Give evidence for

Front 25

Denizen

Back 25

A person who inhabits a particular place

Front 26

Discursive

Back 26

Tending to cover a wide range of subjects

Front 27

Disseminate

Back 27

Cause to become widely known

Front 28

Dowdy

Back 28

Lacking in smartness or taste

Front 29

Florid

Back 29

Elaborately or excessively ornamented

Front 30

Foist

Back 30

To force onto another

Front 31

Gauche

Back 31

Lacking social polish

Front 32

Heresy

Back 32

A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion

Front 33

Inculcate

Back 33

Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

Front 34

Palpable

Back 34

Capable of being perceived

Front 35

Perceptive

Back 35

Having the ability to understand

Front 36

Pernicious

Back 36

Exceedingly harmful

Front 37

Salient

Back 37

Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

Front 38

Satiate

Back 38

Fill to satisfaction

Front 39

Sear

Back 39

Become superficially burned

Front 40

Specious

Back 40

Plausible but false

Front 41

Absolve

Back 41

Grant remission of a sin to

Front 42

Caricature

Back 42

A representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect

Front 43

Clangor

Back 43

A loud resonate repeating noise

Front 44

Contiguous

Back 44

Having a common boundary or edge

Front 45

Cupidity

Back 45

Extreme greed for material wealth

Front 46

Deleterious

Back 46

Harmful to living things

Front 47

Enhance

Back 47

Increase

Front 48

Enthrall

Back 48

Hold spellbound

Front 49

Extenuate

Back 49

Lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

Front 50

Implicit

Back 50

Suggested though not directly expressed

Front 51

Incisive

Back 51

Demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

Front 52

Ostentatious

Back 52

Intended to attract notice and impress others

Front 53

Paragon

Back 53

A perfect embodiment of a concept

Front 54

Paraphrase

Back 54

Express the same message in different words

Front 55

Politic

Back 55

Marked by artful prudence, experience, and shrewdness

Front 56

Prosaic

Back 56

Lacking wit or imagination

Front 57

Redundant

Back 57

More that is needed, desired, or required

Front 58

Sanctimonious

Back 58

Excessively or hypocritically pious

Front 59

Scintillating

Back 59

Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

Front 60

Winsome

Back 60

Charming in a childlike or naive way