1. Honors American Literature Vocbulary
List #6

2. contrite
(Adj) penitent, eager to be forgiven

3. discursive
(Adj) rambling, lacking order

4. ephemeral
(Adj.) short-lived, fleeting

5. feral
(Adj.) wild, savage

6. hackneyed
(adj) unoriginal, trite

7. ineffable
(Adj.) unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words

8. iniquity
(N.) wickedness or sin

9. maelstrom
(n.) a destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects

10. nadir
(N.) the lowest point of something

11. officious
(adj.) Offering one’s services when they are neither wanted nor needed.

12. pernicious
(adj.) Extremely destructive or harmful

13. plethora
(n.) An abundance, excess

14. prosaic
(adj.) Plain, lacking liveliness

15. punctilious
(adj.) Eager to follow rules or conventions

16. reprove
(v.) To scold, rebuke

17. ribald
(Adj.) coarsely, crudely humorous

18. sagacity
(n.) shrewdness, soundness of perspective

19. stupefy
(v) to astonish, make insensible

20. taciturn
(adj) not inclined to talk

21. vacuous
(adj) Lack of content or ideas, stupid