Vocabulary
Every Friday, there will be a 20 point vocabulary quiz over ten words. See the attached instructions (listed under week 1) for more instructions. Also, click here for the appendices, detailing more information about the quizzes. Week 1: Complex sentences 1. brazen 2. compunction 3. din 4. edict 5. indiscretion 6. perquisites 7. sepulcher 8. suppliant 9. tumult 10. marauding Week 3: compound-complex sentence 21. avocation 22. Callous 23. capricious 24. disparity 25. efficacy 26. epistle 27. hospice 28. impetus 29. moribund 30. Vacillate Week 5: Sentence Pattern: periodic sentence 41. affront 42. blasé 43. cajole 44. choleric 45. encumber 46. feckless 47. impasse 48. indolent 49. lugubrious 50. ribald Week 7: Sentence Pattern: chiasmus 61. allay 62. capacious 63. didactic 64. diurnal 65. ignominious 66. mitigate 67. palpitate 68. phlegmatic 69. propitious 70. prostrate |
Week 2: compound sentence 11. admonish 12. akimbo 13. ebb 14. lassitude 15. muse 16. pecuniary 17. plight 18. presumptuous 19. subversive 20. Vacuous List 4: Sentence Pattern: loose sentence 31. akin 32. corroborate 33. inexorable 34. insipid 35. nefarious 36. physiognomy 37. retinue 38. suppliant 39. tedium 40. torrid Week 6: Sentence Pattern: balanced sentence 51. adulation 52. censure 53. dissemble 54. dissimulation 55. droll 56. expectorate 57. palpate 58. peremptory 59. pusillanimous 60. surfeit Week 8: Sentence Pattern: asyndeton 71. acquiesce 72. amity 73. arduous 74. gestalt 75. inundate 76. perjury 77. perspicuity 78. preposterous 79. trepidation 80. voluble |