Sophomore Honors

Vocabulary 14 Sophomore Honors Test April 6 – Define – Review Unit 11 Test April 13 – Usage – Review Unit 12

1. amenable – (adj) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible synonyms: agreeable, compliant, docile

2. berate – (v) to scold sharply synonyms: to chide, to rebuke, to reprove, to reprimand

3. carnage – (n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life synonyms: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

4. credulous – (adj) too ready to believe, easily deceived synonyms: gullible

5. criterion – (n) a rule, a test; a standard for judgment or evaluation synonyms: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

6. deplete – (v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly synonyms: to exhaust, to empty, to drain, to bankrupt

7. expatiate – (v) to expand on, to write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely synonyms: to elaborate, to enlarge, to wander, to roam

8. extraneous – (adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential; irrelevant synonyms: incidental, extrinsic

9. inception – (n) the beginning, the start, the earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. synonyms: the commencement, the inauguration, the outset

10. infirmity – (n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) synonyms: affliction, malady, defect

11. jejune – (adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile synonyms vapid, insipid, childish

12. obdurate – (adj) stubborn, unyielding synonyms: obstinate, adamant 13. potpourri – (n) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent synonyms: hodgepodge, medley

14. precocious – (adj) unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) synonyms: forward, gifted, advanced

15. sadistic – (adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel synonyms: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish

16. sententious – (adj) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words; pithy synonyms: moralistic

17. supplicate – (v) to bed earnestly and humbly synonyms: to plead, to petition, to implore, to entreat

18. surfeit – (n) an excess of over indulgence, as in eating or drinking synonyms: (n) excess, glut (v) to satiate

19. tortuous – (adj) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious synonyms: circuitous, serpentine

20. turgid – (adj) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; over decorated or excessive in language synonyms: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown