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English Vocabulary and Basic English II Information
Frequently missed Vocabulary out of the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level D, basic nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions,& conjunctions.
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| abscond | to run off hide |
| adept | throughly skilled;expert |
| adherent | a follower, supporter; attached sticking to |
| blashphemy | an act, utterance, or writing showing contempt for something sacred |
| chide | blame, scold |
| depreciation | a lessening in value; a belittling |
| deteriorate | to lower in quality or value; to wear away |
| dissolute | losse in one's morals or values |
| efface | to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |
| feign | pretend |
| feint | a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense |
| fortify | to strengthen build up |
| garble | to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected, beyond control |
| inundate | to flood overflow |
| irreverent | disrespectful |
| languid | drooping |
| obstreperous | noisy; unruly |
| pilfer | to steal in small quantities |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome, fond of fighting |
| rasping | harsh sound |
| revile | to attack with words, call bad names |
| sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| slapdash | careless & hasty |
| spasmodic | sudden & violent but brief |
| spurious | not genuine, not true, not valid |
| sterling | genuine, excellent |
| subjugate | to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| superflous | exceeding what is suffidient or required |
| tenacious | holding fast; holding together firmly |
| tirade | a long, angry speech, usually very critical |
| usurp | to seize and hold position by force or without right |
| concrete noun | names something that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted(book, thunder, perfume, soup) |
| abstract noun | something that cannot be perceived through the 5 senses (feelings-happy, sad) |
| common noun | general name for person, place, thing/idea (teacher. city, song) |
| proper noun | name of particular person, place, thing/idea (Mrs.Brown, etc) |
| compound noun | contains 2 or more shorter words that may be written as one word, as seperate words, or with hyphens(grandma, disc jockey, brother-in-law) |
| collective noun | singular noun that refers to a grou(audience, colony, herd) |
| personal pronoun | change form to express person, #, gender |
| reflexive pronoun | formed by adding -self or -selves |
| intensive pronoun | used to add emphasis( I myself did it...) |
| indefinite pronoun | singular-another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, ont, somebody, someone, soemthing, one, somebody, someone, something plural- both, few, many, several singular/plural-all, any, more, most, none, some |
| relative pronoun | who, whom, whose, which, that |
| demonstrative pronoun | this, that, these, those |
| interrogative pronaoun | who, whom, whose, which, what |
| auxillary verb | helping verb |
| main verb | action verbs |
| transitive verb | when the action of the verb is directed toward someone or something, called the object of the verb(Nerve cells TRANSMIT{verb}electrical IMPULSES{object} throughout the cell body.) |
| intransitive verb | when the person ot thing doing the acting doesn't direct its action toward someone or something |
| linking verb | if u can substitute is, are, was, or were for a verb- its a linking verb |
| action verb | tells action |
| adjective | word that modifies noun or pronoun( answers the questions which one?, what kind? or How much?) |
| adverb | modifies ver, adjective or andother adverb |
| prepositional phrase | preposition and its object, pkus any modifiers(into the house) |
| object of preposition(OP) | follows preposition (into the HOUSE) |
| coordinating conjunctions | and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so |
| correlative conjunction | both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but(also), whether...or |
| conjunctive adverbs | accordingly, also, besides, consequently, finally, futhermore, hence, however, indeed, moreover, nevertheless, otherwise, still, then |
| interjections | express felling or emotion |
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