10th Grade Vocabulary List 1

WORD
1. Accoutrement
2. Accretion
3. Barrage
4. Bastion
5. Congeal
6. Conscript
7. Discursiveness
8. Disenfranchise
9. Expediency
10. Expiate
11. Explicate
12. Heterodox
13. Hidebound
14. Irrefragable
15. Irreproachable
16. Misogynist
17. Perceptive
18. Quantify
19. Quantitative
20. Torpor

POS
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.
v.
adj.
v.
n.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
adj.
n.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-an identifying and often superficial characteristic or device
-the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
-a vigorous or rapid outpouring or projection of many things at once
-a fortified area or position
-to change from a fluid to a solid state; to make viscid or curdled
-to enroll into service by compulsion
-moving from topic to topic without order
-to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity
-a means of achieving a particular end
-to extinguish the guilt incurred by or make amends for
-to develop the implications of; analyze logically
-holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines
-having an inflexible or ultraconservative character
-impossible to refute, break, or alter
-blameless, impeccable
-one who hates women
-characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight
-to determine, express, or measure the quantity of
- of, relating to, or involving the measurement of quantity or amount
-a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility

10th Grade Vocabulary List 2

WORD
1. Acolyte
2. Acuity
3. Beget
4. Beguile

POS
n.
n.
v.
v.

5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.
v.

Consensus
Conspicuous
Disingenuous
Disinterested
Exploit
Exposition
Histrionic
Hoary
Hypothetical
Irrevocable
Itinerant
Mitigate
Adduce
Peremptory
Querulous
Quibble

DEFINITION & NOTES

-an assistant to the clergy in a liturgical service who performs minor duties
-keenness of perception
-to produce especially as an effect or outgrowth
-to lead by deception
-to while away especially by some agreeable occupation
-a general agreement
-obvious to the eye or mind
-lacking in candor; giving a false appearance of simple frankness
-not having the mind or feelings engaged; not interested
-deed or act; especially a notable or heroic act
-a setting forth of the meaning or purpose
-deliberately affected; theatrical
-gray or white with or as if with age
-being or involving an assumption
-not possible to take back; unalterable
-traveling from place to place
-to cause to become less harsh or hostile
-to offer as example, reason, or proof in discussion or analysis
-to act in advance of or in exclusion of opposition
-habitually complaining; whining
-to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words

10th Grade Vocabulary List 3

WORD
1. Admonitory
2. Adulation
3. Beleaguer
4. Belie
5. Constellation
6. Consternation
7. Dialectical

POS
adj.
n.
v.
v.
n.
n.
adj.

8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.

adj.
v.
adj.
n.
v.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.

Disparity
Expostulate
Spry
Homogeneity
Hone
Jaded
Jargon
Modest
Onerous
Peripheral
Perjury
Postmodernism

20. Quirk

n.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-expressing reproof; warning
-excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
-besiege; trouble, harass
-to give a false impression of
-a configuration of stars
-amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
-related to or in accordance with a philosophical concept by which a new entity is
produced from two opposites
-markedly distinct in quality or character
-to reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion or remonstrance
-nimble
-the state of remaining the same throughout
-to make more acute or intense
-made dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience or by surfeit
-a confused unintelligible language
-placing a moderate estimate on ones abilities or worth
-involving, imposing, or constituting a burden
-of, relating to, or being the outer part
-the voluntary violation of an oath or vow
-a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture,
identity, history, or language
-a peculiar trait

10th Grade Vocabulary List 4

WORD
1. Admonish
2. Adumbrate
3. Bellicose
4. Belligerent
5. Contingent
6. Contrite
7. Disposition
8. Extraneous
9. Extrapolate
10. Hyperbole
11. Jeopardize
12. Mnemonics
13. Mollify
14. Perfunctory
15. Perpetuated
16. Quintessential
17. Arrogate
18. Quotidian
19. Sedulous
20. Shirk

POS
v.
v.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
v.
n.
v.
adj.
v.
adj.
v.
adj.
adj.
v.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to indicate duties or obligations to
-to foreshadow vaguely
-favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
-inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
-likely but not certain to happen; dependent or conditioned by something else
-feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
-prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination
-not forming an essential or vital part
-to predict by projecting past experience or known data
-extravagant exaggeration
-to expose to danger or risk
-a technique of improving the memory
-to soothe in temper or disposition
-characterized by routine or superficiality
-to cause to last indefinitely
-representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class
-to claim or seize without justification
-occurring every day
-involving or accomplished with careful perseverance
-to go stealthily; to evade the performance of an obligation

10th Grade Vocabulary List 5

WORD
1. Aficionado
2. Belittle
3. Benign
4. Contemporary
5. Contumacy
6. Dispassionate
7. Dissemble
8. Extirpate
9. Faade
10. Hypothesize
11. Jaundiced

POS
n.
v.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
v.
n.
v.
adj.

12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

v.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
v.
n.

Jockeying
Modicum
Monastic
Monolith
Pernicious
Personable
Perspicacity
Ratify
Tabula rasa

DEFINITION & NOTES

-one knowledgeable and appreciative of a usually fervently pursued interest or activity
-to speak slightingly of; disparage
-of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life
-happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time
-stubborn resistance to authority
-not influenced by strong feeling; not affected by personal or emotional involvement
-to hide under a false appearance
-to destroy completely
-a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect
-to make an assumption for the sake of argument
-affected with or as if with yellowish pigmentation of the skin
-exhibiting or influenced by envy, distaste, or hostility
-to deal shrewdly or fraudulently with
-a small portion; a limited quantity
-resembling (as in seclusion or ascetic simplicity) life in a monastery
-a massive structure
-highly injurious or destructive; deadly
-pleasant or amiable in person; attractive
-the quality of acute mental vision or discernment
-to approve and sanction formally
-something existing in its original pristine state

10th Grade Vocabulary List 6

WORD
1. Affable
2. Agog
3. Bemoan
4. Beseech
5. Contumacious
6. Convivial
7. Disputation
8. Extricate
9. Hypochondriac

POS
adj.
adj.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.
n.
v.
n.

10. Hypocritical
11. Imminent
12. Jibe

adj.
adj.
v.

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

n.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.

Jingoistic
Jollity
Momentous
Monotonous
Perpetuity
Pertinacity
Putative
Ramifications

DEFINITION & NOTES

-characterized by ease and friendliness
-full of intense interest or excitement
-to express deep grief or distress over
-to beg for urgently or anxiously
-stubbornly disobedient
-relating to or fond of feasting and good company
-verbal controversy
-to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
-one who faces extreme depression of mind or spirits often centered on imaginary
physical ailments
-characterized by an appearance of false character or beliefs
-ready to take place
-to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to another
-to be in accord
-extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy
-the quality or state of being jolly
-important, consequential
-tediously uniform or unvarying
-the quality or state of continuing forever or occurring continually
-adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design
-commonly accepted or supposed
-consequence, outgrowth

10th Grade Vocabulary List 7

WORD
1. Aggregate
2. Aghast
3. Bequeath
4. Disseminate
5. Dissimulation
6. Dogmatic
7. Facet
8. Faddish
9. Iconoclast
10. Imbibe
11. Jocular
12. Jubilant
13. Monolithic
14. Perspire
15. Quandary
16. Raucous
17. Raze
18. Surmise
19. Susceptible
20. Venial

POS
adj.
adj.
v.
v.
v.
adj.
n.
n.
n.
v.
adj.
adj.
adj.
v.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
adj.
adj.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount
-struck with terror, amazement, or horror
-to give or leave by will
-to spread abroad as though sowing seed
-to hide under a false appearance
- given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
-any of the definable aspects that make up a subject or an object
-a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal
-a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
-to receive into the mind and retain; to take in liquid
-given to jesting; habitually jolly or playful
-exultant
-constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole
-to emit matter through the skin
-a state of perplexity or doubt
-disagreeably harsh or strident; boisterously disorderly
-to destroy to the ground
-a thought or idea based on scanty evidence
-open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus or influence; impressionable
-of a kind that can be remitted; forgivable

10th Grade Vocabulary List 8

WORD
1. Aisle
2. Akimbo
3. Bibulous
4. Chateau
5. Copious
6. Cornucopia

POS
n.
adj./adv.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.

7. Dissolute
8. Dissonance

adj.
n.

9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.

Fallacious
Immoderate
Immutable
Importunity
Judicious
Juxtapose
Moratorium
Obstetrics
Pertinent
Rebus
Rebuttal
Robust

DEFINITION & NOTES

-a passage separating sections of seats
-set in a bent position
-highly absorbent
-a feudal castle or fortress in France; a large country house
-yielding something abundantly; profuse in words, expression, or style
-a curved horn overflowing with fruit and ears of grain that is used as decoration and
emblematic of abundance
-lacking restraint
-a lack of agreement
-a mingling of discordant sounds
-tending to deceive or mislead
-exceeding just, usual, or suitable bounds
-not capable of or susceptible to change
-the quality or state of being overly persistent in request or demand
-having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment
-to place side by side
-a legally authorized period of delay
-a branch of medical science that deals with birth and related issues
-having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand
-a representation of words or syllables by pictures or symbols
-the act of exposing the falsity of an argument
-having or showing vigor, strength, or firmness

10th Grade Vocabulary List 9

WORD
1. Alacrity
2. Alchemy
3. Bilk
4. Biweekly
5. Corrigible
6. Corroborate
7. Distensible
8. Distrain
9. Falsify
10. Fanatical
11. Impassible
12. Kleptomania
13. Mordacious
14. Peruse
15. Pervasive
16. Petrify
17. Recapitulate
18. Recluse
19. Slake
20. Zeitgeist

POS
n.
n.
v.
adj.
adj.
v.
adj.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
adj.
v.
v.
adj.
v.
n.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-promptness in response; cheerful readiness
-a power or process of transforming something common into something special
-to block the free development of; or to cheat out of something valuable
-occurring twice a week
-capable of being set right
-to support with evidence or authority; make more certain
-capable of being extended or enlarged from internal pressure
-to force or compel to satisfy an obligation by means of a distress
-to prove or declare false
-marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion
-incapable of suffering or experiencing pain; incapable of feeling
-a persistent neurotic impulse to steal especially without economic motive
-given to biting; caustic; sarcastic
-to examine or consider with attention and in detail
-existing in or spreading through every part of something
-to make rigid or inert like stone; to confound with fear, amazement, or awe
-to repeat the principal stages or phases of
-marked by withdrawal from society
-subside, abate; satisfy, quench
-the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

10th Grade Vocabulary List 10

WORD
1. Alias
2. Alibi
3. Blandishment
4. Blatant
5. Countenance
6. Covert
7. Divest
8. Emerge
9. Fatuous
10. Fecund

POS
n.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.

11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.

Impede
Imperative
Imperious
Lackadaisical
Moribund
Morose
Phenomenology

v.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.

18. Receptacle
19. Reconnaissance
20. Transient

n.
n.
adj.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-an assumed or additional name
-an excuse usually intended to avert blame or punishment
-something that tends to coax or cajole
-noisy especially in an offensive manner
-face, visage; especially the face as an indication of mood, emotion, or character
-not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed
-to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title
-to rise from an obscure or inferior position or condition
-complacently or inanely foolish
-fruitful in offspring or vegetation
-intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree
-to interfere with or slow the progress of
-a command
-marked by arrogant assurance
-lacking life, spirit, or zest
-being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence; also approaching death
-having a sullen and gloomy disposition
-the study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a preface
to or part of philosophy
-one that receives and contains something
-a preliminary survey to gain information
-passing especially quickly into and out of a place or of existence

10th Grade Vocabulary List 11

WORD
1. Bombast
2. Lurid
3. Credible
4. Doff
5. Fanaticism

POS
n.
adj.
adj.
v.
n.

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.

adj.
v.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.

Fervent
Impending
Implicit
Lachrymose
Lissome
Munificent
Nugatory
Petulant
Philistine

15. Protg

n.

16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

adj.
n.
adj.
v.
v.

Recondite
Recourse
Redolent
Slight
Transcribe

DEFINITION & NOTES

-pretentious inflated speech or writing
-causing horror or revulsion
-offering reasonable grounds for being believed
-to remove something; or to take off a hat in greeting as a sign of respect
-outlook or behavior marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical
devotion
-exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling
-to hover threateningly or be about to occur
-capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed
-given to tears or weeping
-easily flexed
-very liberal in giving or bestowing
-of little or no consequence; having no force
-insolent or rude in speech or behavior
-one uninformed in a special area of knowledge; sometimes used as synonym for
barbarian
-one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience,
prominence, or influence
-difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
-a source of help or strength
-exuding fragrance; evocative, suggestive
-to treat with disdain or indifference
-to make a written copy of

10th Grade Vocabulary List 12

WORD
1. Allay
2. Allure
3. Braggart
4. Cower
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.

Crepuscular
Don
Exacerbate
Felicitous
Impetuous
Incognito
Lacuna
Lament
Mundane
Dais
Muse
Phenomenon
Philanthropy
Reconnoiter
Referendum

20. Traverse

POS
v.
v.
n.
v.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity
-to entice by charm or attraction
-a loud arrogant boaster
-to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces,
domineers, or dismays
adj.
-of, relating to, or resembling twilight
v.
-to put on or wrap oneself in
v.
-to make more violent, bitter, or severe
adj.
-very well suited or expressed
adj.
-marked by impulsive vehemence or passion
adv/adj. -with ones identity concealed
n.
-a blank space or a missing part
v.
-to mourn aloud; wail
adj.
-characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary
n.
-a raised platform
v.
-to become absorbed in thought
n.
-an observable fact or event
n.
-goodwill to fellow members of the human race
v.
-to make a preliminary survey to gain information
n.
-the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed
by a legislative body or by popular initiative
v.
-to go against or act in opposition to

10th Grade Vocabulary List 13

WORD
1. Alleviate
2. Altruism
3. Bourgeois
4. Brevity
5. Creditable
6. Cringe
7. Dolt
8. Drivel
9. Effrontery
10. Fickle
11. Impolitic
12. Laconic
13. Languor
14. Larceny

POS
v.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.

15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

n.
adj.
adj.
v.
adj.
v.

Nadir
Navigable
Oblique
Pillage
Redundant
Vivify

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to make more bearable or partially remove or correct
-unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
-of, relating to, characteristic of the social middle class
-shortness of duration
-sufficiently good to bring esteem or praise; worthy of belief
-to shrink in fear or servility
-a stupid person
-nonsense
-shameless boldness
-marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability
-not shrewd in managing, contriving, or dealing; unwise
-using or involving the use of a minimum of words
-weakness or weariness of body or mind
-the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
permanently
-the lowest point
-deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships
-not straightforward; indirect
-to plunder ruthlessly; loot
-unnecessary or excessive
-to endow with life or renewed life

10th Grade Vocabulary List 14

WORD
1. Altercate
2. Ambiguity
3. Brawny
4. Dormancy
5. Drone
6. Engender
7. Figurehead
8. Finesse
9. Flamboyant
10. Impoverished
11. Impromptu
12. Impunity
13. Languid
14. Lank
15. Lassitude
16. Mutinous
17. Necromancer

POS
v.
n.
adj.
n.
v.
v.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.

18. Placate
19. Regalia
20. Rendezvous

v.
n.
n.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to dispute angrily or noisily
-a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways
-muscular; strong, powerful
-the quality or state of being inactive
-to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone
-to cause to exist or to develop
-a head or chief in name only
-skillful handling of a situation; adroit maneuvering
-marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior
-deprived of strength, richness, or fertility by depleting or draining of something essential
-composed or uttered without previous preparation
-exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss
-drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion
-not well filled out; slender, thin
-a condition of weariness or debility
-disposed to or being in a state of resistance to lawful authority
-one who conjures spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or
influencing the course of events; magician, sorcerer
-to soothe or mollify especially by concessions
-decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership
-a meeting at an appointed time and place

10th Grade Vocabulary List 15

WORD
1. Amass
2. Ambidextrous
3. Ambrosial
4. Brigand
5. Bristle
6. Bungle
7. Crockery
8. Cryptic
9. Culture

POS
v.
adj.
adj.
n.
v.
v.
n.
adj.
n.

10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

v.
v.
n.
v.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.
v.

Dwindle
Flail
Fledgling
Incarcerate
Lackluster
Largesse
Nebulous
Pinnacle
Pious
Precept
Remediate

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to collect for oneself
-using both hands with equal ease
-extremely pleasing to taste or smell
-one who lives by plunder usually as a member of a band
-to take on an aggressively defensive attitude
-to act or work clumsily and awkwardly
-earthenware
-having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning
-the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social
group
-to become or make steadily less
-to move or swing your arms or legs in a wild and uncontrolled way
-an immature or inexperienced person
-to put in prison or subject to confinement
-lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality
-liberal giving to or as if to an inferior or something so given
-indistinct, vague
-the highest point of development or achievement
-marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship
-a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action
-to correct a fault or deficiency

10th Grade Vocabulary List 16

WORD
1. Ambivalence
2. Broach
3. Brook
4. Cudgel
5. Culpability
6. Dross
7. Ductile
8. Flaunt
9. Fledge
10. Impute
11. Incandescent
12. Latent

POS
n.
v.
v.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
v.
v.
v.
adj.
adj.

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

adj.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
v.
n.

Lavish
Manipulative
Neocracy
Placebo
Placid
Plethora
Renege
Renown

DEFINITION & NOTES

-simultaneous and contradictory attitudes toward an object, person, or action
-to open up a subject for discussion
-to stand for; tolerate
-a short heavy club
-the condition of meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful
-something that is base, trivial, or inferior
-easily led or influenced
-to display ostentatiously or impudently
-to rear until ready for independent activity
-to credit to a person or cause
-strikingly bright, radiant, or clear
-present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or
symptomatic
-expending or bestowing profusely
-changing by artful or unfair means so as to serve ones purpose
-government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule
-something tending to soothe
-serenely free of interruption or disturbance
-excess, superfluity
-deny, renounce; to go back on a promise or commitment
-a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored

10th Grade Vocabulary List 17

WORD
1. Ameliorate
2. Amity
3. Bureaucracy

POS
v.
n.
n.

4. Burgher
5. Cumbersome
6. Curate
7. Dyne

n.
adj.
n.
v.
n.

8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

adj.
v.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.

Fly-by-night
Foist
Inchoate
Legion
Lethargic
Nexus
Nominal
Plausible
Polemicist
Repartee
Replete
Turpitude
Vocative

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to make better or more tolerable
-friendship; especially friendly relations between nations
-government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a
hierarchy of authority
-a member of the middle class; a prosperous solid citizen
-unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk
-a clergyman in charge of a parish
-to care for and have superintendence of
-the unit of force in the centimeter-gram-second system equal to the force that would
give a free mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second
-given to making a quick profit usually by shady or irresponsible acts; transitory; passing
-to pass off as genuine or worthy
-being only partly in existence or operation
-many, numerous
-of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy
-a connected group or series
-existing or being something in name or form only
-superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious
-an aggressive controversialist
-a succession or interchange of clever retorts
-fully or abundantly provided or filled
-inherent baseness; depravity
-marking the one addressed

10th Grade Vocabulary List 18

WORD
1. Amorous
2. Burlesque
3. Butte
4. Curio
5. Curmudgeon
6. Ebullient
7. Eccentric
8. Forage
9.
10.
11.
12.

Incantation
Inchoative
Incipient
Legend

POS
adj.
n.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
v.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Levee
Libertarian
Nonchalance
Reprehensible
Reprieve
Roster
Solicitous
Verisimilar

n.
n.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
adj.
adj.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-strongly moved by love
-mockery usually by caricature
-an isolated hill or mountain with steep or precipitous sides
-something considered novel, rare, or bizarre
-a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
-having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm
-deviating from an established or usual pattern or style
-food for animals especially when taken by browsing or grazing
-the act of foraging: search for provisions
-a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect
-denoting the beginning of an action, state, or occurrence
-beginning to come into being or to become apparent
-a story coming down from the past
-an explanatory list of symbols on a map or chart
-an embankment intended to prevent flooding
-a person who upholds the principles of individual liberty especially of thought and action
-the quality or state of having an air of easy unconcern or indifference
-worthy of or deserving blame or condemnation; culpable
-to delay the punishment of ; to give relief or deliverance to for a time
-a roll or list of personnel; an itemized list
-full of concern or fears; meticulously careful
-having the appearance of truth

10th Grade Vocabulary List 19

WORD
1. Amorphous
2. Analgesic
3. Cacophony
4. Curtail
5. Damp
6. Diffident
7. Eddy
8. Forensic
9. Forte
10. Incoherent
11. Incongruous
12. Labile
13. Lien

POS
adj.
n.
n.
v.
v.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

n.
n.
adj.
v.
n.
n.
adj.

Limerick
Manacle
Nondescript
Plodding
Reproof
Resignation
Unalloyed

DEFINITION & NOTES

-having no definite form; being without definite character or nature
-a remedy that relieves or allays pain
-harsh or discordant sound
-to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part
-to diminish the activity or intensity of
-hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
-a current of water or air running contrary to the main current
-relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems
-ones strong point
-lacking orderly continuity, arrangement, or relevance
-inconsistent within itself
-readily open to change
-a charge upon property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by
operation of law
-a light or humorous verse
-a handcuff or something used as restraint
-lacking distinctive or interesting qualities
-to work or proceed laboriously, monotonously, or slowly
-criticism for a fault; rebuke
-an act or instance of resigning something; surrender
-unmixed, unqualified, pure

10th Grade Vocabulary List 20

WORD
1. Amortize
2. Androgynous
3. Byline

POS
v.
adj.
n.

4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Calibrate
Cynosure
Dawdler
clat
Egalitarianism

v.
n.
n.
n.
n.

9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Forbearing
Fracas
Inconspicuous
Libertine
Lithe
Nonplussed
Novice
Pluck
Portend
Repudiate
Resolution
Vociferous

v.
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
v.
v.
n.
adj.

DEFINITION & NOTES

-to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of
-neither specifically feminine nor masculine
-a line at the beginning of a news story, magazine article, or book giving the writers
name
-to adjust precisely for a particular function; to measure precisely
-one that serves to direct or guide
-one who spends time idly or moves lackadaisically
-ostentatious display; dazzling effect
-a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic
affairs
-to hold oneself back from especially with an effort
-a noisy quarrel; brawl
-not readily noticeable
-a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality
-characterized by easy flexibility and grace
-at a loss as to what to say, think, or do
-a person who has just started learning or doing something
-courageous readiness to fight or continue against odds
-to give an omen or anticipatory sign of
-to refuse to have anything to do with
-a firm decision or a formal expression of opinion or intention
-marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry