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Review for English II Vocab Final
Review for 50 words on English II final
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| ameliorate | make better, improve |
| abominate | to detest, hate |
| anomalous | not common |
| approbation | approval |
| ascribe | to assign as a characteristic |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| austere | stern, severe |
| beneficient | kind, beneficial |
| brusque | abrupt, blunt |
| callow | lacking maturity |
| caveat | warning or caution |
| commiserate | express sorrow |
| crass | crude, rude |
| decadence | condition of decline |
| disconcert | disorder, frustration |
| drivel | talk stupidly, child-like |
| equitable | fair, not partial |
| exhort | to appeal, argue |
| expedite | speed up |
| extricate | to release |
| fetter | restraint |
| flout | insult, scorn |
| hackneyed | overused, unorigional |
| heinous | wicked, hateful |
| inadvertant | lack of care |
| infer | assume, conclude |
| infringe | to exceed limit, violate |
| ingratiate | bring in to favor, insinuate |
| innuendo | indirect, subtle |
| insurgent | rising in revolt, against gov't |
| intercede | to plead on one's behalf |
| irrevocable | impossible to change |
| nominal | consisting of a name |
| prerogative | a right held by a certain group |
| prognosticate | to predict, or fortell |
| provincial | relating to an area |
| punctilious | attentive to minute detail |
| repudiate | to reject validity of something |
| reverberate | to resound in succession |
| scathing | to harm or injure, by fire |
| scurrilous | vulgar, coarse, foul mouthed |
| straitlaced | excessively strict in behavior |
| stringent | strict requirements |
| surmise | to infer, or guess |
| surreptitious | stealth, covert |
| tenuous | having little substance |
| transcend | to go beyond a certain limit |
| transient | decaying with time |
| unwieldy | difficult to handle |
| vitriolic | bitter |
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