12th Grade Mastery Vocab

Jane R. (United States of America)
These are all the words that ALL Seniors are expected to know by the end of the year at Hill-Murray.
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  1. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
  2. abrogate
    revoke formally
  3. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  4. affectation
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  5. allege
    report or maintain
  6. articulate
    express or state clearly
  7. avidity
    a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
  8. benignity
    the quality of being kind and gentle
  9. bestial
    resembling an animal, especially by being vicious or cruel
  10. chary
    characterized by great caution
  11. confound
    be confusing or perplexing to
  12. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  13. consummate
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
  14. credulity
    tendency to believe readily
  15. dejection
    a state of melancholy depression
  16. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  17. depraved
    deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper
  18. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  19. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  20. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  21. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  22. felicitous
    exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
  23. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  24. gesticulate
    show, express, or direct through movement
  25. hallow
    render holy by means of religious rites
  26. idealist
    someone not guided by practical considerations
  27. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
  28. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  29. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  30. iniquity
    absence of moral or spiritual values
  31. inure
    cause to accept or become hardened to
  32. irreparable
    impossible to rectify or amend
  33. jocund
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  34. languish
    become feeble
  35. loathe
    dislike intensely; feel disgust toward
  36. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
  37. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
  38. mandate
    a formal statement of a command to do something
  39. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  40. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  41. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  42. mutable
    capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
  43. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  44. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  45. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  46. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  47. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  48. paroxysm
    a sudden uncontrollable attack
  49. pedantry
    an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
  50. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  51. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  52. physiognomy
    the human face
  53. piquant
    having an agreeably pungent taste
  54. pittance
    an inadequate payment
  55. portend
    indicate by signs
  56. precept
    a rule of personal conduct
  57. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  58. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  59. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
  60. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  61. sacrilege
    blasphemous behavior
  62. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  63. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  64. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  65. unremitting
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  66. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  67. verdant
    characterized by abundance of vegetation and green foliage
  68. visage
    the human face
Created on Mon Oct 14 12:31:03 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Oct 21 10:27:00 EDT 2013)

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