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Review for the Vocabulary Exam Next Week!

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Lesson 11 Words juxtapose || Part of Speech verb || Definition to place side by side for comparison || Example Sentence ||
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 * kinetic || adj. || pertaining to motion ||  ||
 * fissure || noun || a narrow opening or crack ||  ||
 * scintillate || v. || to sparkle; to twinkle; to sparkle intellectually ||  ||
 * desiccated || adj || dehydrated ||  ||
 * legerdemain || verb || trickery or deception ||  ||
 * delineate || verb || to trace the outline of ||  ||
 * elixir || noun || a supposed remedy for all ailments ||  ||
 * cessation || noun || a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance ||  ||
 * salacious || adj. || obscene; lustful ||  ||
 * libertine || noun || one who leads an immoral life ||  ||
 * epitome || noun || a typical example ||  ||
 * fetish ||  || certain like for something ||   ||
 * garruious ||  || talkative; wordy ||   ||
 * lachrymose ||  || suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful ||   ||
 * languid ||  || lacking in vigor or vitality, slack or slow; lacking in spirit or interest ||   ||

Lesson 12 Words
 * Word || Part of Speech || Definition || Example Sentence ||
 * Blandishment || noun. || the use of flattery and enticements to persuade somebody to do something ||  ||
 * Halcyon || Adjective || calm; pleasant ||  ||
 * necromancy ||  || a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art ||   ||
 * Garner || verb || to assemble or get together ||  ||
 * Fastidious || Adjective || excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Malapropism || Noun || A word humorously misused ||  ||
 * Paradigm || Noun || A model; an example ||  ||
 * Badinage || Noun || playful, teasing talk ||  ||
 * bilious ||  || pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile ||   ||
 * debauchery ||  || excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance ||   ||
 * grumption ||  || initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefullness ||   ||
 * hegira ||  || islaml; any flight or journey to a more desirable place ||   ||
 * kismet ||  || fate/destiny ||   ||
 * milieu ||  || surroundings; esp. of a social or cultural nature; a snobbish milieu ||   ||
 * regress ||  || to move backward; go back ||   ||

Lesson 13 Words __Animosity__ || Part of Speech noun || Definition bitter hostility || Example Sentence || by human beings; carrion ||  ||
 * Word
 * hoi polloi || n. || the common people; the masses ||  ||
 * Obsequious || adjective || excessively submissive or overly attentive ||  ||
 * offal || noun || the parts of a butchered animal that are inedible
 * Nirvana || Noun || a condition of great peace or happiness ||  ||
 * brevity || noun || a short duration; brief time ||  ||
 * savant || noun || a person of profound or extensive learning ||  ||
 * impinge || verb || to have an effect or impact ||  ||
 * cataract ||  || high waterfall ||   ||
 * despicable ||  || deserving to be despised; deserving scorn ||   ||
 * hapleguin ||  || a comic character ||   ||
 * redundant ||  || exceeding what is necessary; unnecessary repition ||   ||
 * salutary ||  || effect improvement/healthful ||   ||
 * sentient ||  || conscious of something ||   ||
 * empathy ||  || understanding of another's situation; pity ||   ||

Lesson 14
 * Word || Part of Speech || Definition || Example Sentence ||
 * bombast || noun || grandiloquent, pompous speech in writing ||  ||
 * aggrandize || v. || to make great or greater ||  ||
 * orthography ||  || the art of study of correct spelling accourding to established usage ||   ||
 * paleontology ||  || the study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times ||   ||
 * recoil ||  || to start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread. ||   ||
 * saturnine || adj. || sluggish in temperment; gloomy ||  ||
 * endemic ||  || peculiar to some specified country or people ||   ||
 * mendacious ||  || untrue; telling lies ||   ||
 * obviate ||  || to clear away or provide for; as an objection or difficulty. to anticipate/dispose of efficently ||   ||
 * paroxysm ||  || a sudden outburst of any kind of activity ||   ||
 * deign ||  || to deem worthy of notice or account ||   ||
 * flaunt ||  || to parade or display oneself conspicuously or bodly ||   ||
 * shibboleth ||  || a word or pronuncation that distinguishes people of one group or class from another ||   ||
 * elicit ||  || to draw or bring out; educe; evoke ||   ||
 * panache ||  || a grand or flamboyant manner; style; flair ||   ||

Lesson 15
 * Word || Part of Speech || Definition || Example Sentence ||
 * Aesthetic || adj. || beautiful; pleasing in appearance ||  ||
 * Chaff || noun || something that is worthless or irrelevant ||  ||
 * Egregious

empirical || adj.

adj. || flagrant; conspiciously bad or offensive

derived from an experiment ||  || that sinners indure after death ||  ||
 * orifice || noun || opening into a cavity or passage in the body ||  ||
 * perdition || noun || the state of everlasting punishment in hell
 * querulous || adj. || inclined to complain or find fault; whining ||  ||
 * germane || adj. || being at once relevant and appropriate ||  ||
 * hallow || v. || to make holy ||  ||
 * hermetic || adj. || tightly sealed ||  ||
 * empirical ||  || based on practical experience rather than theory ||   ||
 * meretricious ||  || attractive in a cheap, flashy way ||   ||
 * flaccid ||  || flabby ||   ||
 * hospice ||  || a shelter for travelers, orphans, or ill or destitute ||   ||
 * ratiocinate ||  || to reason; to think ||   ||
 * foment ||  || to stir up; to incite ||   ||

Lesson 16
 * Word || Part of Speech || Definition || Example Sentence ||
 * affinity || n || a natural attraction to ||  ||
 * fiscal || adj. || pertaining to finance ||  ||
 * miscreant |||| n. an evildoer; a villain. ||  ||
 * recant || verb || to withdraw or disavow a statement or opinion ||  ||
 * regale

salient || verb

adj. || to delight with something pleasing or amusing

signifigant; conspicous; standing out from the rest. ||  ||
 * jocular || adj. || humorous; lighthearted ||  ||
 * impalpable || adj. || unable to be felt; intangible, unconceivable by the mind ||  ||
 * recreant || noun || a coward; a traitor ||  ||
 * flout || v. || to ridicule; to show contempt for ||  ||
 * salacious || adj. || obscene; lustful ||  ||
 * palliate || v || to ease; to lessen; to soothe ||  ||
 * malleable || adj || capable of being changed; easily shaped ||  ||
 * flagellate || v || to whip; to lash ||  ||
 * lascivious || v. || lustful or lewd ||  ||

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