English 12A Vocabulary List

Semester One

Lesson Seven

civility affront

connoisseur buffoon

exhilaration capitulate

foible effusion

germane guffaw

gregarious indulgent

obsequious magnanimous

patrimony munificent

precocious propitious

punctilious querulous

Lesson Eight

abeyance chastise

discrepancy demagogue

homogeneous deplore

illicit detriment

inscrutable emanate

inundate harbinger

perfidious intercede

pervade irrevocable

primordial obnoxious

sumptuous prevaricate

Lesson Nine

anarchy cadaverous

cajole consign

commodious elocution

ethnology incorrigible

extricate maim

impair residual

menial restitution

nadir strident

pestilence subversion

rampant virulent

Lesson Ten

calumny auspices

contingency austerity

dissent clandestine

impassive foment

litigation hiatus

mollify obese

recant solicitous

retaliate temerity

saline vestige

sedentary vindicate

Lesson Eleven

differentiate chauvinism

disparity cosmopolitan

empirical devoid

facetious epitome

officious inexorable

quiescent moot

renounce regimen

scathing repository

testimonial sagacity

treatise tenuous

Lesson Twelve

bode acrimonious

burnish atrophy

coerce benevolence

esoteric consternation

firmament desist

gauntlet enigma

mete expound

misnomer loquacious

mottled precursor

terra firma voluminous