Welcome to the NEW English Class

Starting April 7th (Monday) Class will be graded 60% Vocabulary tests 30% Speaking tests 10% Participation

Week 1 Vocabulary (Due Monday, April 7)

Bane Voluble use bombastic language troublesome influence talkative Stupefying Condone Bard astonishing; shocking; stunning into silence tacitly support; overlook poet Eclectic Condoning Voluminous taking things from different sources overlooking; disregarding; ignoring very large; spacious Bastion Genre Edifice fortress; stronghold a category; type building; structure; construction Conflagration Irascible big fire easily angered Germane Efface Mundane relevant wipe out; remove all trace of ordinary; worldly Ire Perpetuated anger [irate (a) = very angry] Germinal caused to continue just growing; not developed; immature Munificent Rancor generous; charitable Irksome resentment; animosity; bad feeling Perpetuity annoying; infuriating Strut eternity swagger; show off Rant

Mutinous insightful; sharp; wise destroy; demolish; tear down very rebellious Raucous Personable rough and unpleasant (of sounds) Subterfuge attractive a trick Ratify Substantiate Wane approve; consent give supporting evidence grow less Subpoena Waive Beguile summons to court surrender; give up mislead; lure Voracious Begrudge Congenital ravenous resent present from birth Befuddle Congeal Egalitarianism confuse to solidify belief in equality Confound Effusive Pinnacle gushing; demonstrative topmost point Effigy Glacial Referendum a model of a person hostile; unfriendly; cold; icy public vote Gibbering Irrational Suspect making meaningless noises unreasonable; absurd doubtful Ironic Navigable Wistful satiric; unexpected suitable for sailing melancholy; pensive; expressing a longing for Myriad Perspicacity in large numbers insight Perspicacious Raze

Bellicose capricious; changeable secretly; furtively; stealthily war-like; aggressive Bemoan Wily Consummate complain about cunning complete; total; supremely good Contrite Benign Elusive sorry kindly; harmless hard to pin down Emancipate Contumacious Gregarious set free extroverted; sociable; outgoing Guffaw Embroil Jaundiced sudden loud laughter involve in hostility or argument cynical; pessimistic Jeopardize Guileless Nettle put at risk; endanger frank; straightforward; honest annoy Nomadic Jocular Phenomenon wandering from place to place in a joking manner an event or happening (plural: phenomena) Philistine Nondescript Recuperate uncultured person having no special features; dull and ordinary get better after illness Redolent Pillage Superlative smelling of; giving off odors plunder extremely good; the best Surreptitious Redundant Whet secret; sneaky; stealthy unnecessary; superfluous sharpen Willful Susceptible Belligerent stubborn vulnerable aggressive; ready to fight Benevolent Wispy Contemporary kindly flimsy; frail; delicate living or happening at the same time Contrition Benignity Emaciated sorrow and repentance compassion; gentleness; fondness very thin; withered Embezzle Contusion Gritty defraud; steal a bruise coarse; granular Guile Emerge Jaunt cunning; craftiness come out; appear short pleasure trip Jingoistic Gullibility Niggardly extremely patriotic; nationalistic unwariness; trustfulness; being easily fooled miserly; stingy Nonchalance Jollity Philanthropy an appearance of indifference; calm and composed gaiety; happiness charity; love of mankind Nonentity Red tape Phlegmatic a person of no importance; not famous formalities; paperwork; official procedure calm; imperturbable Surly Redress grumpy; rude put right something that was wrong Whimsical Surreptitiously

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