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English Vocab Unit 5
Sadlier Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level G
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Literature
12th Grade
11/11/2010

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Term
Acuity
Definition

Sharpness to the mind or senses

 

S: Keenness, acuteness

"Acuity Hearing"

Term
Delineate
Definition

to portray, sketch, or describe in a accurate and detail to represent pictorially

 

S: Depict, picture, render

Term
Depraved
Definition

marked by evil and corruption deviod of moral principles

 

S: perverted degenerate vicious corrupt

Term
Enervate
Definition

to weaken or lessen the mental moral or physical vigor of 

 

S: impair, cripple paralyze

energy X

Term
Esoteric
Definition

intended for or understood by only a select few

 

S: occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite

Eric, only understood by people

Term
Fecund
Definition

fruitful in offspring or vegetation intellectually productive

 

S: Fertile, teeming, prolific

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Fiat
Definition

an arbitrary order or decree, a command or act of will or consciousness

 

S: Edict, dictum, ukase

Term
figment
Definition

a fabrication of the mind

 

S: creation, invention, fancy

Term
Garner
Definition

to acquire as the result of effort, to father and store away as for future use

 

S: collect, accumulate, accrue

"gather, garner"

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Hallow
Definition

to set apart as holy or sacred sanctify, consecrate, to honor greatly

 

S: venerate, bless

"holy, hallow"

Term
idiosyncrasy
Definition

a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify

 

S: eccentricity, quirk, mannerism

"crasy people"

Term
ignominy
Definition

shame and disgrace

 

S: Dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium

"igno- ignore"

Term
mundane
Definition

earthly, wordy, relating to practical and material affairs, concerned with what is ordinary

S: prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary

"monday, common, boring"

Term
nuance
Definition

a subtle or slight variation as in color, delicate gradation or shade of difference

 

S: shade, nicety, refinement

 

Term
overweening
Definition

conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate

 

S: arrogant, unbridled, inflated

" Over, yourself"

Term
penchant
Definition

a strong attraction or inclination

 

S: proclivity, propensity, predilection

"Chant if your strong"

Term
Reputed
Definition

according to reputation or general belief having widespread acceptance and good repuation

 

S: putative, reputable, supposed 

"Rep- Reputation"

Term

Sophistry

 

Definition

reasing that seems plausible but is actually unsound, a fallacy

 

S: specious reasoning

"Soph(more) try to tell you something"

Term
Sumptuous
Definition

costly, rich, magnificent

 

S: lavish, munificent, opulent, splendid

 

Term
ubiquitous
Definition

present or existing everwhere

 

S: omnipresent, pervasive, universal 

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