9th Grade Vocabulary List 1 - Mr. Wheeler's Class Shelf

[Pages:21]9th Grade Vocabulary List 1

WORD

POS

1. Adulterate v.

2. Augment

v.

3. Bereft

v.

4. Disparage

v.

5. Dour

adj.

6. Encapsulate v.

7. Fortitude

n.

8. Insidious

adj.

9. Intimate

v.

10. Opulent

adj.

11. Ostensible

adj.

12. Pliable

adj.

13. Proscribe

v.

14. Recede

v.

15. Reiterate

v.

16. Remittance n.

17. Sophistry

n.

18. Stolid

adj.

19. Tentative

adj.

20. Vernacular n.

DEFINITION & NOTES -to corrupt or make worse by addition of something of lesser value -to make large or increase -deprived of; made unhappy through a loss -express a negative opinion which often results in a diminished value -stern, unyielding, gloomy, or ill-humored -to enclose in -courage in facing difficulty -intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous -a hint or indirect suggestion -wealthy, luxurious, ample, grandiose -of or related to motives or facts that are apparent but not necessarily real or true -easily bent; flexible; easily influenced -command against -move back or retreat -to say again or repeat -payment -elaborate and eloquent but logically invalid arguments often intended to deceive -not easily moved mentally or emotionally; unresponsive -experimental in nature; uncertain; hesitant -common language; everyday speech; often related to a particular locale

9th Grade Vocabulary List 2

WORD

POS DEFINITION & NOTES

1. Abdicate

v.

-to give up a position, a right, or power

2. Blight

n.

-an affliction, destroying element, or disease

3. Blithe

adj.

-joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought

4. Ephemeral

adj.

-lasting a short time

5. Fervid

adj.

-intensely emotional

6. Fetid

adj.

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7. Flag

v.

-to decline in vigor, strength, or interest

8. Florid

adj.

-excessively decorated or embellished

9. Glower

v.

-to glare at or stare angrily or intensely at

10. Gullible

adj.

-easily deceived

11. Irascible

adj.

-easily made angry

12. Ignominy

n.

-public shame or disgrace

13. Lament

v.

-to express sorrow or grief

14. Monastic

adj.

-extremely plain or secluded

15. Nominal

adj.

-existing in name only; negligible

16. Nuance

n.

-a subtle expression of meaning or quality

17. Pathology

n.

- foul smelling or putrid

18. Sedition

n.

-behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder

19. Specious

adj.

-deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

20. Tawdry

adj.

-cheap, gaudy, or showy

9th Grade Vocabulary List 3

WORD

POS

1. Austere

adj.

2. Banal

adj.

3. Belfry

n.

4. Chauvinist

n.

5. Corroborate v.

6. Crescendo

n.

7. Dissemble

v.

8. Emulate

v.

9. Expurgate

v.

10. Fecund

adj.

11. Frugality

n.

12. Grovel

v.

13. Guile

n.

14. Hegemony n.

15. Luminous

adj.

16. Nascent

adj.

17. Parley

v.

18. Sanguine

adj.

19. Sportive

adj.

20. Stratagem

n.

DEFINITION & NOTES -severe or stern in appearance; undecorated -predictable, clich?d, boring -a bell tower; a room in which a bell is hung -someone prejudiced in favor of the group to which he or she belongs -to support with evidence -steadily increasing in volume, force, or pitch to a terminal peak -to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character -to copy; to try to equal or excel -to censor or edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate -fertile, fruitful, or productive -tending to be thrifty or cheap -to humble oneself in a demeaning way -deceit or trickery -the domination of one state or group over its allies -bright, brilliant, glowing -starting to develop or coming into existence -discuss, usually between enemies -ruddy, cheerfully optimistic -frolicsome, playful -a trick designed to deceive or to gain advantage over

9th Grade Vocabulary List 4

WORD

POS

1. Assuage

v.

2. Audacious

adj.

3. Circumspect adj.

4. Condone

v.

5. Desiccate

v.

6. Diatribe

n.

7. Dogmatic

adj.

8. Droll

adj.

9. Eloquent

adj.

10. Fallow

adj.

11. Furtive

adj.

12. Lampoon

v.

13. Malinger

v.

14. Orotund

adj.

15. Reticent

adj.

16. Sardonic

adj.

17. Sully

v.

18. Surfeit

n.

19. Verdant

adj.

20. Vernal

adj.

DEFINITION & NOTES -to make something unpleasant less severe; to reduce severity -fearless and daring -cautious; aware of potential consequences -to overlook, harden, or disregard -to dry out thoroughly -an abusive, condemnatory speech -dictatorial in one's opinion -amusing in a wry, subtle way -persuasive and moving especially in speech -dormant; unused -secret or stealthy -to ridicule usually with satire -to evade responsibility -pompous -silent or reserved -cynical; scornfully mocking -to varnish or taint -an excessive amount -green with vegetation; inexperienced -related to spring, youth, or freshness

9th Grade Vocabulary List 5

WORD

POS

1. Advocate

n.

2. Belabor

v.

3. Complaisance n.

4. Corpulent

adj.

5. Debut

n.

6. Effectual

adj.

7. Filibuster

n.

8. Galvanized adj.

9. Impropriety n.

10. Minutiae

n.

11. Ostracism

n.

12. Peccadillo

n.

13. Rent

v.

14. Ribald

adj.

15. Solace

v.

16. Tare

n.

17. Torpid

adj.

18. Undermined adj.

19. Virulence

n.

20. Vivacity

n.

DEFINITION & NOTES -one that pleads the cause of another -to explain or insist on excessively -disposition to please or comply -having a large bulky body -a first appearance or formal entrance into society -producing or able to produce a desired result -the use of tactics to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative assembly -subjected to the action of an electric current for the purpose of stimulating physiologically -an improper or indecorous act or remark -a minor detail -exclusion by general consent -a slight offense -synonymous to the past tense of tear -crude, offensive -to comfort in grief or misfortune -a weed of grain in fields; an undesirable element -lacking in energy or vigor -weakened insidiously or secretly -extreme bitterness or malignity of temper -the quality of state of being lively in temper, conduct, or spirit

9th Grade Vocabulary List 6

WORD

POS

1. Confer

v.

2. Denounce

v.

3. Dispatch

v.

4. Dispensation n.

5. Edifice

n.

6. Flippant

adj.

7. Gerontocracy n.

8. Idyll

n.

9. Inefficacious adj.

10. Irradiate

v.

11. Opaque

adj.

12. Quixotic

adj.

13. Superlative adj.

14. Tyro

n.

15. Unfrock

v.

16. Unscathed

adj.

17. Vicarious

adj.

18. Whet

v.

19. Whittle

v.

20. Wizen

v.

DEFINITION & NOTES -to compare views or take counsel -to pronounce to be blameworthy or evil -to send off or away with promptness or speed -a general state or ordering of things -a large or massive structure -lacking proper respect or seriousness -rule by elders -a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes -lacking the power to produce a desired effect -to cast rays of light upon -hard to understand or explain -foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals -of very high quality -a beginner in learning -defrock: remove from a position of honor or privilege -wholly unharmed; not injured -performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another -to make keen or more acute -to reduce, remove, or destroy gradually -to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or failing vitality

9th Grade Vocabulary List 7

WORD

POS

1. Approbation n.

2. Augury

n.

3. Coddle

v.

4. Effuse

v.

5. Erudite

adj.

6. Gaunt

adj.

7. Imprecate

v.

8. Lag

v.

9. Lucid

adj.

10. Neologism

n.

11. Paean

n.

12. Prattle

v.

13. Refute

v.

14. Seminal

adj.

15. Sinewy

adj.

16. Stinting

v.

17. Stratagem

n.

18. Synapse

n.

19. Usurp

v.

20. Xenophobe n.

DEFINITION & NOTES -an act of approving formally or officially -divination from auspices or omens -to treat with extreme or excessive care or kindness -to flow out -having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying -excessively thin and angular -to invoke evil on -to stay or fall behind -clear to the understanding -a newly invented word, usage, or phrase -a work that praises or honors its subject -to say in an unaffected or childish manner -to prove wrong by argument or evidence -containing or contributing the seeds of later development -tough, stringy -sparing or frugal -a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end -the point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another -to take or make use of without right -one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin

9th Grade Vocabulary List 8

WORD 1. Accede 2. Accession 3. Comity 4. Corporeal 5. Fervor 6. Fiasco 7. Illusory 8. Kindle 9. Libel 10. Licentious 11. Limpid 12. Marsupial

13. Milieu 14. Pommel 15. Prolixity 16. Quail 17. Runic 18. Salvo 19. Stoke 20. Tremulous

POS DEFINITION & NOTES

v.

-to express approval or give consent

n.

-increase by something added

n.

-friendly social atmosphere

adj.

-having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body

n.

-intensity of feeling or expression

n.

-a complete failure

adj.

-based on or producing illusion; deceptive

v.

-to stir up

n.

-a written or oral statement that unjustly attacks a person's character or reputation

adj.

-lacking legal or moral restraints

adj.

-marked by transparency

n.

-any of an order of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums,

and related animals

n.

-the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops

n.

-a word used to refer to a knob on a sword or a saddle

n.

-the condition of being long or drawn out

v.

-to give way or recoil in dread or terror

n.

-having some secret or mysterious meaning

n.

-a means of alleviating one's conscience

v.

-to poke or stir up

adj.

-exceedingly sensitive; easily shaken or disordered

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