1. Honors Vocabulary
List #5

2. Conflagration (n)
great fire

3. Demure (adj)
Quiet, modest, reserved

4. To free from guilt or blame, exonerate
Exculpate (v)
To free from guilt or blame, exonerate

5. Lofty, pompous (arrogant) language
Grandiloquence (n)
Lofty, pompous (arrogant) language

6. impinge (v) to impact, affect, make an impression
(v) to encroach (trespass or intrude), infringe

7. Ingenuous (adj.)
not devious; innocent and candid

8. Magnanimous (adj.)
Noble, generous

9. Obtuse (adj.)
Lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect

10. Panacea (n.)
A remedy for all ills or difficulties

11. Petulance (n.)
Rudeness, irritability

12. Primeval (adj.)
Original, ancient

13. Repudiate (v.)
To reject, refuse to accept

14. Servile (adj.)
Subservient; Obedient

15. Spurious (adj.)
False but designed to seem plausible

16. Torpid (adj)
Lethargic, dormant, lacking motion

17. Turpitude (n.)
Depravity, moral corruption

18. Usurp (v.)
To seize by force, take possession of without right

19. Vicarious (adj.)
Experiencing through another

20. Wizened (adj.)
Dry, shrunken, wrinkled

21. Zenith (n.)
The highest point, culminating point