Vocabulary 10

Using Context Clues

Beguile

• Cheat, distract, trick, con; to deceive by trickery

Demure

• Modest, bashful, retiring; reserved in manner

Equanimity

• Poise, balance; being calm and even-tempered

Fortitude

• Mental toughness, guts, grit, bravery, courage, valor; strength of mind

Hidebound

• Prejudiced, set in one’s ways, close-minded; stubbornly inflexible

Laud

• Approve, commend, acclaim, worship; glorify

Obscurity

• Darkness, uncertainty, indistinctness, dimness, fuzziness; quality of being imperfectly known

Resilient

• Elastic, recuperative; able to recover quickly

Sagacious

• Prudent, farsighted, shrewd, clever, smart; having good judgment; wise

Tumult

• Upset, riot, agitation, chaos, disorder; disturbance

Vocabulary 11

Using Multiple-Meaning Words

Abhor

• To hate intensely; despise; loathe

Candor

• Frankness, honesty; sincerity

Dauntless

• Fearless, courageous; bold

Insinuation

• Indirect suggestion, often negative; hint

Pall

• Something that covers, especially with gloom or darkness; shroud

Patronize

• To act with condescension; to give suuport

Suppress

• To put an end to; stop; cease

Tentative

• Experimental, hesitant; unsure

Tribulation

• Suffering or trial; hardship

Volatile

• Sharply changeable; unsteady

Vocabulary 12

Prefixes Meaning “For” and “Against”

Antibiotic

• Drug like penicillin that destroys germs; drug with capacity to destroy bacteria

Antipathy

• Strong feeling of aversion or dislike; basic or habitual repugnance

Antithesis

• Opposite of a stated idea; opposition; contrast; the direct opposite

Contraband

• Smuggled goods, goods not allowed to be imported; anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported; illegal goods

Contradictory

• Expressing the opposite; asserts the contrary or opposite of; denying directly or categorically

Counterweight

• Force opposed equally to another; weight that equals or balances another; counterpoise

Obstruct

• Hinder, block, get in the way of; to block or close up with an obstacle; to interrupt the passage, progress, or course

Obtrude

• Intrude, force oneself or one’s opinion on others; to thrust something forward or upon a person without invitation; to thrust forth; push out

Oppugn

• Oppose, call into question; to assail by criticism, argument, or action; dispute

Proponent

• One who argues in support of something; person who puts forward a proposition or proposal; one who supports a cause or doctrine