English9VocabFinal Flashcards
inanimate
(adjective) not having life; dead
My inanimate toys would come to life at night.
supercilious
(adj) full of hate, arrogant
“supercilious look on his face”
doleful
(adj) sad
meander
(verb) to wander about
Some students meander to school, instead of going directly there.
flippant
(adj) disrespectful
Flippant responses have a time and place.
larceny
(Noun) theft
If you steal property worth $1000s, you commit grand larceny.
pliant
(adj) flexible, easily influenced.
People with pliant personalities always do as their friends want them to do.
reprieve
(noun) temporary relief or delay
Mom went to San Diego to take a reprieve from her duties back home.
hoodwink
(verb) trick, deceive
Internet scams intend to hoodwink people into giving out their bank account info.
abscond
(verb) to run off and hide
Thieves absconded the museum’s artwork.
anarchy
(noun) lack of government
At the end of wars, people often find themselves living in anarchy
daunting
(adj) intimidating; difficult to deal with
Homework at Rocky is often daunting.
auspicious
(adj) fortunate
Good weather in April is an auspicious sign, so people plant gardens.
intrepid
(adj) fearless
marauder
(noun) pirate or robber
Marauders sneak onto ships to steal treasures.
pauper
(noun) very poor person
My great-grandfather was a pauper during the Depression of the 1930’s.
rift
(noun) split or break
Rifts often occur in families when they divide up their deceased parents belongings.
trite
(adj) overused, old
Trite sayings can be annoying to hear again & again.
altercation
(noun) angry argument
As voices rose, we feared an altercation may take place.
cherubic
(adj) round, angel-like face
Newborn babies often look cherubic.
condone
(verb) overlook
Most bosses do not condone disrespectful behavior.
deadlock
(noun) situation where no further progress can be made.
perennial
(adj) everlasting
illegible
(adj) hard to read
Dad’s handwriting is often illegible.
lucrative
(adj) making money
His business was very lucrative.
subjugate
(verb) conquer by force
The troops worked fast to subjugate the enemy.
fabricate
(Verb) to make, or to lie
Silkworms fabricate silk.
The girl fabricated a story about how she lost her homework.
exorcise
(verb) to drive out something troublesome
We should do all we can to exorcise the prejudice in our society.
fodder
(noun) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a purpose
Life’s experiences are fodder for a poet’s imagination.
salvage
(verb) to save from a disaster.
We tried to salvage as much as we could from our flooded basement.
dissolute
(adj) loose morals or behaviors
Some emperors led dissolute lives.
erratic
(adj) inconsistent; undependable
Erratic attendance at school can get you expelled.
admonish
(verb) to scold mildly
The teacher admonished the student for forgetting her homework in her locker again.
circumspect
(adj) careful; cautious
Government officials need to be circumspect in their behavior.
cumbersome
(adj) hard to handle; slow-moving
Some furniture is cumbersome to move.
muddle
(verb) confuse
The big words in a poem can muddle it’s true meaning.
spurious
(adj) not genuine, false
biased
(adj) favors one side more than the other
Referees in sports are sometimes biased.
succumb
(verb) to give in or yield to
I often succumb to anything chocolate depending on the time of day.
