Vocabulary Homework Guidelines
Vocabulary Homework Guidelines
Homework
Vocabulary Homework:
On the weeks you are assigned vocabulary homework, you will be responsible for 67 words each week.
That’s right! By the end of this semester you will be familiar with 670 words. Some words do repeat
throughout the list to reinforce learning and you are already familiar with many of these words.
Familiarize yourself with the various forms (adjective, adve
ial, noun, ve
, etc.) of each word. (i.e.,
number 2 on the list is analogy. Know related forms: analogous, analogue, analogic, analogical,
analogically, analogist.) Although the word appears on your list in one form, it may appear on a quiz or
exam in another form.
Your homework should contain each of the following:
• Relate 20 of your vocabulary words to real issues in society today or from the past, include
examples of REAL newspaper articles, radio or TV shows using the words. Be sure to underline
the vocabulary words so they are easily recognized.
o (Examples:
§ 1. One reason why recycling is critical is because our landfills are teeming with
ga
age.
§ 2. “Happily, reader, you and I are cool, hip, insouciant types who cannot be
othered to care a whit about things like the transit times of imaginary armies,
and we will happily accept this piece of information without even the merest hint
of indignation, OK? -’Game of Thrones’ Season 8, Episode 5: ‘Let It Be Fear’ NPR
article by Glen Weldon, May 13, 2019)
• Write a short story (3 – 5 paragraphs) with 15 of your vocabulary words. Have fun and be
creative! Include an opening, problem/solution, closing, and illustration. All 15 vocabulary words
need to be in the same story. Underline each vocabulary word so they are easily recognized.
• Create an illustrated dictionary for 15 of your vocabulary words. Each entry should have the
definition and an accompanying picture.
Compose your homework in one Word document and upload it to the co
esponding week’s dropbox.
This means that each homework assignment will include 50 of the 67 assigned vocabulary words.
Choose any of the words from that week’s list to make up the 50. You cannot repeat words, so pick 50
DIFFERENT words to complete each week’s homework assignment.
Vocabulary homework is due day 5 (Friday) by 11:59 pm.
Vocabulary List (Updated Aug 2019)
1. Accolade praise
2. Allusion indirect reference
3. Ambivalence uncertainty; having 'mixed' feelings
4. Ambivalent unable to decide
5. Analogy comparison
6. Anecdote short account of something interesting; story
7. Anomalous odd; not fitting the pattern
8. Apparition ghost; something that 'appears'
9. Aspersion negative feeling; damaging remark
10. Belligerence aggression
11. Bombastic too elaborate; exaggerated
12. Candid truthful
13. Capricious changeable; fickle
14. Cherished cared for; firmly-held
15. Cliche overused expression
16. Conception 1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy
17. Convoluted complicated or long-winded
18. Credence belief
19. Cryptic hidden
20. Cu
ency 1. widespread acceptance, 2. money
21. Decorous good and co
ect (used of behavior)
22. Denunciation act of speaking out against
23. Derailed thrown off course
24. Derivative unoriginal
25. Despotic acting like a tyrant
26. Detritus ru
ish
27. Diaphanous very thin and transparent
28. Dictum often-used saying
29. Dilettante person who da
les in the arts
30. Disdained showed contempt for
31. Dispassionate unbiased; fair
32. Dowager an elderly woman of elevate social status
33. Dubious doubtful
34. Egalitarian equal; believer in equality
35. Elicit draw out (used mainly for information or feelings)
36. Elliptical 1. shaped like an ellipse, 2. indirect
37. Epitomizes acts as a typical example of
38. Equivocate speak ambiguously/vaguely
39. Evasiveness trying to avoid something
40. Explicitly very clear; nothing hidden
41. Foraging searching for food
42. Hypothetical based on guesswork; not proven
43. Iconoclast person who goes against accepted authority
44. Idiosyncratic quirky; unique to an individual
45. Imponderable cannot be understood
46. Indecorous not well-behaved; lacking in dignity
47. Indigence extreme poverty
48. Inept clumsy
49. Inherent inbuilt; genetic
50. Intricate complicated
51. I
efutable cannot be proved wrong
52. Jingoism using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism
53. Jubilant joyful
54. Judicious fair and equal
55. Lament express regret over something
56. Loquacious talkative; using too many words
57. Mendicancy begging
58. Metaphorical not literal; figurative
59. Milieu environment; su
oundings
60. Mitigated made less severe
61. Nascent just begun; in an early stage of development
62. Nostalgia longing for the past
63. Obtrusive easily seen
64. Orthographical concerned with writing and spelling
65. Ossified become fixed and rigid
66. Ostentatious showy
67. Palpable can be felt
68. Pastoral 1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone
69. Pedestrian 1. boring (adj), 2. person who walks (n)
70. Perfidy treachery; betrayal
71. Profligacy wasteful and immoral behavior
72. Prohibitive very expensive
73. Prudence wisdom; caution
74. Pugnacious aggressive
75. Purveyor one who sells something or causes something to spread
76. Resonance echo
77. Respite
eak (from work etc.)
78. Resurgence revival
79. Sparse thin; not thick
80. Stringent strict
81. Succumbing giving in to; falling under the influence of
82. Supercilious a
ogant
83. Tenacity firmness of purpose
84. Transcend go beyond a limit
85. Variegated multicolored
86. Venerable worthy of respect
87. Viable workable; able to live or grow
88. Visceral concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental
89. Ambivalent undecided; having 'mixed' feelings
90. Apathy lack of energy or interest
91. Autonomy self-government
92. Benevolent kindly
93. Blanched turned pale
94. Bolster give support to
95. Bucolic concerned with the countryside and farming
96. Callous cruel and unfeeling
97. Cantankerous bad tempered
98. Capricious changeable; fickle
99. Chicanery trickery; attempt to deceive
100. Churlish ill-mannered
101. Cohesive forming a whole; 'sticking' together
102. Concur agree
103. Cryptic hidden; obscure
104. Decimation extensive destruction
105. Deft skilful
106. Delinquency wrong-doing
107. Depravity moral co
uption
108. Desolate lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeless
109. Devoid of empty of
110. Didactic intending to teach or give instructions
111. Disingenuous crafty
112. Dispassionate unbiased
113. Disposition tendency; personality
114. Dissent disagreement
115. Effusive overly expressive of emotions; 'gushing'
116. Endorse support
117. Enigma puzzle
118. Enumerate count out; list
119. Ephemeral short-lived
120. E
oneous wrong
121. Erudition great knowledge or learning
122. Esoteric obscure
123. Fa
ication something made up; untrue
124. Facetious cheeky; not to be taken seriously
125. Factions sides in a dispute; groups with common interests
126. Flotsam floating ru
ish
127. Fostered encouraged
128. Hackneyed stale and over-used
129. Ha
ored held [as in 'ha
ored and idea']
130. Hodgepodge strange mixture
131. Hypothetical not proven; based on guesswork
132. Impetuous impulsive
133. Implacable cannot be appeased; relentless
134. Impugned challenged; attacked in words
135. Inco
igible cannot be co
ected (of behavior)
136. Indigenous native to a particular place
137. Ineffable cannot be expressed in words
138. Irascible easily angered
139. Ironic unexpected
140. Lament express regret
141. Languid having no energy or interest
142. Lassitude lack of energy
143. Lugu
ious mournful; very sad
144. Mercurial rapidly changing
145. Misnomer wrong name for something
146. Mollified calmed; pacified
147. Multifaceted having many aspects
148. Mundane dull; ordinary
149. Nostalgic longing for the past
150. Obtrusive easily seen; 'sticking out'
151. Omnipotent all powerful
152. Pedagogy science of teaching
153. Phlegmatic calm
154. Plausible believable
155. Precursor fore-runner; earlier version
156. Preeminence fame; top position
157. Pretentious putting on an act
158. Prognosis outlook
159. Prolific producing a lot
160. Provocative provoking
161. Raiment clothes; garments
162. Reciprocate pay back
163. Reconcile
ing disputing side together again
164. Remiss wrong
165. Remonstrance criticism
166. Resilient able to spring back; strong
167. Retrenchment reducing staff or forces; conserving resources
168. Robust firm and strong
169. Skeptical doubtful
170. Skewed distorted; bent
171. Stringent strict
172. Subtle not obvious
173. Succinct clear, short and well-expressed
174. Sundry miscellaneous
175. Sustenance support; food
176. Tenable can be held (of an opinion, for example)
177. Tenuous shaky; not firm
178. To
id hot and steamy
179. Undermine attempt to overthrow; weaken
180. Underscore emphasize
181. Unequivocal clear; cannot be misunderstood
182. Vector ca
ier (of disease, for example)
183. Ve
ose wordy
184. Whimsical fickle; changeable
185. Wistful full of sadness and longing
186. Abashed ashamed or so
y
187. Allusion indirect reference
188. Ambivalent undecided; unclear
189. Analogous similar to
190. Anecdote short account/story
191. Annihilated wiped out
192. Anomalies oddities; things that don't fit the pattern
193. Antipodes places on opposite sides of the globe
194. Apprehension wo
y; nervousness
195. Arduous hard and difficult
196. Articulate (adj.) able to express something well in words
197. Assuage to make less
198. Auspicious fortunate; indicative of a successful outcome
199. Avuncular acting like an uncle; kindly
200. Axiom something that is taken to be true; basic idea that can't be questioned
201. Banal dull; unoriginal
202. Bellicose aggressive