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    Vocab 6-10

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    This document provides 10 vocabulary words from each of 9 lessons in an English 11 class, along with their definitions. It introduces a total of 90 words, ranging from "mendacious" meaning dishonest to "arcane" meaning obscure or secret. The words cover a variety of topics and include parts of speech such as adjectives and nouns.

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    This document provides 10 vocabulary words from each of 9 lessons in an English 11 class, along with their definitions. It introduces a total of 90 words, ranging from "mendacious" meaning dishonest to "arcane" meaning obscure or secret. The words cover a variety of topics and include parts of speech such as adjectives and nouns.

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    This document provides 10 vocabulary words from each of 9 lessons in an English 11 class, along with their definitions. It introduces a total of 90 words, ranging from "mendacious" meaning dishonest to "arcane" meaning obscure or secret. The words cover a variety of topics and include parts of speech such as adjectives and nouns.

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    Vocabulary 6 (English 11)

    1. mendacious: dishonest, telling lies habitually


    2. ostensible: apparent, evident, outwardly appearing as such
    3. penchant: a liking, strong inclination
    4. preclude: forestall, eliminate, prevent
    5. precocious: unusually advanced or mature in development, prematurely
    developed
    6. didactic: 1. intended for instruction 2. preachy, trying to teach a moral
    lesson
    7. coup 1. a brilliant, unexpected act 2. a brave or reckless deed performed
    in battle
    8. burnish: to polish
    9. timorous: fearful, timid
    10. ubiquitous: existing everywhere, omnipresent

    Vocabulary 7 (English 11)


    1. haughty: snobbish, arrogant
    2. diminutive: small, little, tiny
    3. anachronistic: out of chronologically, or historically, proper order. Out of
    it’s time- like having an iPod in a movie about the 1800s.
    4. torrid: expressively hot, passionate
    5. vapid: insipid, flat, dull, flat, lifeless, tiresome
    6. scathing: bitterly severe, harmful, searing
    7. banal hackneyed, devoid of freshness or originality, trite, predictable
    8. complicit: choosing to be involved with an questionable, explicit or illegal
    act
    9. latent: present but not visible, dormant, veiled
    10. wanton: sexually lawless or unrestrained

    Vocabulary 8 (English 11)


    1. maelstrom: large, powerful, violent whirlpool
    2. prescient: foresight, foreknowledge
    3. satiate: 1. to supply to excess, disgust or weary, 2. satisfy to the full, sate
    4. bereft: lacking, missing, deprived (adj.)
    5. profane: vulgar, unholy, irreligious
    6. inextricable: unable to detangle or undone, unable to solve, intricate,
    perplexing
    7. obstreperous: unruly, clamorous
    8. repudiate: deny, reject, disown
    9. dearth: an inadequate supply, a lack (noun)
    10. alacrity: cheerfulness, readiness, liveliness, briskness

    Vocabulary 9 (English 11)


    1. indignation: strong displeasure at something considered unjust,
    offensive, insulting, righteous anger
    2. emulate: imitate
    3. pretense: pretending or feigning, claiming falsely
    4. superfluous: excessive, unnecessary
    5. beguile: to trick, mislead, to charm or divert
    6. reclusive: solitary, cut off from the world
    7. ascertain: find out, learn with certainty
    8. innuendo: having indirect, often sexual, meaning; double-meaning
    9. vacuous devoid of substance; inane, stupid, empty
    10. lithe: limber, supple, flexible

    Vocabulary 10 (English 11)


    1. panacea ( ) Doctors wish there was a single panacea for every
    disease, but sadly there is not.
    2. oscillate ( ) My uncle oscillated between buying a station wagon to
    transport his family and buying a sports car to satisfy his boyhood fantasies.
    3. cursory ( ) Late for the meeting, she cast a cursory glance at the
    agenda.
    4. acrimony( ) Though they vowed that no girl would ever come between
    them, Biff and Trevor could not keep acrimony from overwhelming their
    friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely Teresa.
    5. sycophant ( ) Some see the people in the cabinet as the president’s
    closest advisors, but others see them as sycophants.
    6. winsome ( ) After such a long, frustrating day, I was grateful for
    Chris’s winsome attitude and childish naiveté.
    7. disparate ( ) Having widely varying interests, the students had
    disparate responses toward the novel.
    8. cognizant ( ) Jake avoided speaking to women in bars because he was
    cognizant of the fact that drinking impairs his judgment.
    9. intransigent ( ) The intransigent child said he would have 12 scoops
    of ice cream, or he would bang his head against the wall until his mother
    fainted from fear.
    10. arcane (adj.) obscure, secret, known only by a few (The professor is an
    expert in arcane Lithuanian literature.)

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