1. Vocabulary List 1

2. Naïve: adj. innocent, gullible

3. naturalize;: v. to give citizenship to one foreign born

4. Innate: adj. inborn (you’re born with it)

5. Factious: adj. argumentative, inclined to dissent

6. Facile:adj. easy

7. Facsimile: n. an exact copy

8. Abdicate: v. to give up; renounce
What was the last thing you abdicated?

9. Aberration: n. a straying from the norm; abnormality

10. Abjure: v. to renounce; to swear away
I have abjured the doctrines of my parents’ faith.

11. Abscond: v. to depart secretly and hide

12. Complacency: n. state of smugness; self-satifaction
The complacency you felt as a math student was shaken after taking your first geometry exam.

13. Belligerence: n. quality of having a fighting spirit

14. Opulence: n. wealth

15. Tenacious: adj. stubborn; holding fast

16. Retentive: adj. retaining knowledge easily
Do you have a retentive memory?

17. Tenable: adj. able to be defended or upheld

18. Preclude: v. to hinder; to make impossible
You missing practice precludes you from starting in the game.

19. Occlusion: n. the shutting up of an opening

20. Reclusive: adj. shut away; hermit-like
Why might someone be reclusive?

21. Exclusion: n. the act of shutting out
Spencer Pratt was the only exclusion on the guest list.