“A” VOCABULARY: DEFINE AND PROVIDE PART OF SPEECH THE NEXTDAY.
A-1
ARBITER
BANE
BARROW
BURNISH
COMELY
DEFILE
HULL
IMPLACABLE
PARLEY
WHET
A-2
CITADEL
COMPULSIVE
EDICT
FAÇADE
INSOLENCE
LATERAL
SATE
SENTENTIOUS
STEALTHY
SULTRY
A-3
ABSOLVE
APHORISM
AUSPICIOUS
CLEMENT
DEFERENCE
IMPASSIVE
PROFANE
RECOIL
TRANSGRESS
UNTRAMMELLED
A-4
CENSURE
CONCORSE
CONCUSSION
GUILELESS
HAWSER
IMPECCABLE
PROPENSITY
SEAR
SUPINE
TRACE
A-5
ACME
BLEAR
BLIGHT
CLASSICAL - Having to do with Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
DAPPLED
DIMINUTION
FICKLE
PATHETIC
SCANTY
VIVACIOUS
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- A -1
ADMONISH
AGGRANDIZEMENT
AGRONOMY
ANNIHILATE
ANNUITY
HomerThe Iliad - The Odyssey (blind Greek epic composer)
Aeschylus(Known as “The Father of Greek Tragic Drama” eldest composer of Greek Tragedy)
SophoclesOedipus Rex - Antigone (second great writer of Greek Tragedy)
EuripidesMedea - The Trojan Women (third generation of Greek Tragedy)
AristophanesThe Frogs - The Birds - Clouds (Greek Dramatic Comedy)
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- A 2
APPRISE
ARREARS
ASUNDER
AUGMENT
AXIOM
Paine, ThomasCommon Sense – The American Crisis (the voice that inspired the American Revolution)
Irving, WashingtonThe Sketch Book (famous for characters such as Ichabob Crane & Rip Van Winkle)
Cooper, James FenimoreThe Last of the Mohicans (characters such as Uncas, Chingachook, Natty Bumpo)
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEssay on Self Reliance - Nature
Thoreau, Henry David Walden - Essay on Civil Disobedience
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- A 3
BALM
BULBOUS
CAPRICIOUS
CERTITUDE
CIRCUMSCRIBE
Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead - Atlas Shrugged
Huxley, AldousBrave New World
Eisley, LorenThe Immense Journey
Carson, RachelThe Silent Spring
Uris, LeonExodus – The Haj - Trinity - Redemption
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- A 4
CIVILITY
CLOY
COAGULATE
CONFEDERATE
CONFLAGRATION
Milton, JohnParadise Lost, Paradise Regained
Johnson, Dr. SamualA Dictionary of the English Language (the first)
Pope, AlexanderPoems such as: The Rape of the Lock - The Dunciad (British wit of the 18th Century)
Swift, JonathanGulliver’s Travels - A Modest Proposal …
Defoe, DanialRobinson Caruso
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- A 5
CONNOISSEUR
CONSEQUENTIAL
CONSIGN
COPIOUS
DEARTH
AnonymousGilgamesh (ancient Babylonian Epic)
Cervantes, Don MiguelDon Quixote (first novel)
Diderot(The first Encyclopedia – Frenchman who co-ordinated the project )
VoltaireCandide
Rousseau, Jean JaquesEmile - The Social Contract (inspired the Writers of the AmericanRepublic)
“B” VOCABULARY: DEFINE AND PROVIDE PART OF SPEECH THE NEXTDAY.
B-1
AFFLICT
ASPIRE
EXPOUND
GABLE
INCARNATION
INFAMOUS
IRIDESCENT
LIVID
RAFTER
SUBMISSIVE
B-2
ABATE
ATTRITION
DEIGN
MYRIAD
PANDEMONIUM
PRIMORDIAL
RETRACTION
STINT
SUPERFLUOUS
SWATHE
B-3
CHOLERIC
DILIGENT
GENTRY
PALLOR
PRATE
PREVARICATION
SECULAR
SANGUINE
TARRY
VERMIN
B-4
ABSOLUTION
ACCRUE
ADVERSITY
CHIVALRY
MOTLEY
PRELATE
SOLICITOUS
SUNDRY
SUPPLE
VERITY
B-5
BLUNT
EXASPERATE
INCREDULOUS
INDIGNANT
PIQUE
POMPOUS
ROBUST
SLANDER
STRIFE
STUPEFY
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- B1
DEBAUCHERY
DECLAIM
DELVE
DEMURE
DEPRECATE
PlutarchLives (Biographies of the Ancient Greeks & Romans by an ancient Romans)
Herodotus(Father of History – Ancient Greek of the 5th Century BC )
Socrates(Greatest of the early Greek Philosophers, stated “Know Thyself”)
PlatoThe Republic (pupil of Socrates)
AristotleRhetoric - Poetics – Politics – Metaphysics (mentor of Alexander the Great)
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- B2
DERVISH
DESPOIL
DESULTORY
DIDACTIC
DEXTERITY
Melville, HermanMoby Dick
Hawthorne, NathanialThe House of Seven Gables - The Scarlett Letter
Twain, MarkThe Adventure of Huck Finn - The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Stowe, Harriet BeecherUncle Tom’s Cabin
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- B3
DIRGE
DITTY
DISSEMBLE
DOUGHTY
ELYSIUM
Asimov, IsaacThe Fantastic Voyage (Prolific Science Fiction writer)
Haley, AlexRoots
Plath, SylviaThe Bell Jar
Lee, HarperTo Kill a Mockingbird
Salinger, J.D.The Catcher in the Rye
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- B4
ENIGMA
ENVOY
ESTRANGE
ESTUARY
ETYMOLOGY
Richardson, Samual Pamala (the first true British Novel)
Fielding, HenryTom Jones – Joseph Andrews
Austin, JanePride and Prejudice
Bronte, CharlotteJane Eyre
Bronte, EmilyWutheringHeights
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- B5
ZEALOUS
VOCIFEROUS
VICISSITUDE
VERSILMILITUDE
VERBATIM
Verne, JulesAround the World in 80 Days – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (turn of century Sci-Fi) Diderot (The first Encyclopedia – Frenchman who coordinated the project )
Leroux, GastonThe Phantom of the Opera
Flaubert, GustavtMadame Bovary
Hugo, VictorLes Miserable - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“C” VOCABULARY: DEFINE AND PROVIDE PART OF SPEECH THE NEXTDAY.
C-1
ALACRITY
ANIMATE
APLOMB
BALLAST
BRIDLE
EMINENT
MAR
PROXIMITY
VENOMOUS
WIZENED
C-2
CONJECTURE
CONTRIVE
FELICITY
ODIOUS
PERFIDIOUS
PERNICIOUS
PRODIGIOUS
SAGACITY
SANCTITY
VEXATIOUS
C-3
ANTIQUITY
APPROBATION
COMMODITY
INEXTRICABLE
LINEAGE
PARAPHERNALIA
POSTILLION
RUBICUND
RUSTIC
TEMERITY
C-4
BOUNDLESS
ELUDE
FOLIAGE
IMMODERATE
INEXORABLE
NARCISSISTIC
PLUNDER
RUSTLE
VACILLATE
VORACIOUS
C-5
ANARCHY
BELEAGUER
CLANDESTINE
DISCREET
GARRULOUS
IMBUE
INCIPIENT
REVEL
TUMULT
UNKEMPT
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- C1
EXALTATION
FARTHING
FLORIN
FLUNKEY
GELDING
Virgil:The Aeneid (Greatest Roman author)
Horace(Great Roman poet who composed Odes)
Cato & CiceroFamous public speakers in ancient Rome – orators)
Ovid Metamorphoses – The Art of Love
AugustineCity of God - Confessions (ancient church father of the 5th Century AD)
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- C2
GENUFLECT
GLADE
GUMPTION
GUTTERAL
HARRY
Hemmingway, ErnestThe Sun Also Rises – For Whom the Bell Tolls – The Old Man and the Sea
Steinbeck, JohnThe Grapes of Wrath – Of Mice and Men
Fitzgeral, F. ScottThe Great Gadsby
Wharton, EdithEthan Frome
Whitman, WaltLeaves of Grass (great Poet of the American Civil War – Eulogized Lincoln)
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- C3
HEATH
IMMUTABLE
IMPALPABLE
IMPERIOUS
IMPUTE
Huxley, AldousBrave New World
Tolken, J.R.R. The Hobbit – The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy set in Middle Earth)
James, HenryThe Turn of the Screw – Daisy Miller
Vonnegut, KurtSlaughter House Five – Breakfast of Champions – Cat’s Cradle
Michner, James(Historical Novels set in geographic locales) Hawaii – Chesapeake – Poland – Space
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- C4
INCURSION
INEPTITUDE
INGRESS
INTER
INSCRUTABLE
Eliot, GeorgeSilas Marner - Adam Bede
Scott, Sir WalterIvanhoe (a collection of Scottish novels called “The Waverly Novels”)
Stevenson, Robert LewisTreasure Island – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Darwin, CharlesThe Origin of the Species (hypothesized the theory of Evolution)
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urberville – Far From the Maddening Crowd – The Mayor of Casterbridge
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- C5
INTROSPECTIVE
LANGUID
LIBELOUS
LITANY
LUCID
Tolshoy, Count LeoWar and Peace – Anna Karenina
Dostoyevsky, FyodorCrime and Punishment – The Brother’s Karamazov
Pasternak, BorisDr. Zhivago
Solzhenitszen, AlexanderOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – The Gulag Archipelago
Kafka, FranzThe Trial - The Metamorphosis
“D” VOCABULARY: DEFINE AND PROVIDE PART OF SPEECH THE NEXTDAY.
D-1
DISPARAGE
ENMITY
FEIGN
FRENZY
INSATIABLE
PATHOS
SULLEN
TEMPERATE
TENACITY
TORRENT
D-2
APPELLATION
APPURTENANCES
ASSININE
FINICAL
INTERMINABLE
METAPHYSICAL
MOLDER
SONOROUS
SUCCOR
VERACIOUS
D-3
ASPERITY
BREACH
ENCUMBERS
INADVERTENCY
OBLIQUE
PROMONTORY
RISIBLE
TREPIDATION
VALEDICTION
VIGILANCE
D-4
COVERT
DESOLATION
DISPERSE
EFFLUENCE
EXPUNGE
IMPETUOUS
INVOKE
NOCTURNAL
SUFFUSION
SULPHUROUS
A-5
CONTRITELY
CREDULOUS
DOGMATIC
FORMIDABLE
IMPUDENCE
INIMICAL
INTERCEDE
MERCENARY
PERCIPIENCE
SUBLIME
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- D1
LUGRUBIOUS
MALIGN
MANIFEST
MODULATION
MOROSE
Khayam, OmarThe Rubaiyat (Great Persian Philosopher/Poet of the Middle Ages)
DanteThe Divine Comedy (Medieval Italian Epic Writer)
MachiavelliThe Prince (Book of advice to Medieval Rulers on how to Maintain their power)
BoccoccioThe Decameron (100 short stories set in a framework)
Petrarch(Father of the Sonnet Form – Italian of the Late Middle Ages )
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- D2
NARCISSISTIC
NONMENCLATURE
OBSEQUIES
OGLE
PATHOS
Mitchell, MargaretGone with the Wind
James, HenryThe Turn of the Screw – Daisy Miller
Sandburg, CarlThe Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Sinclair, UptonThe Jungle (expose of America’s Meat Packing Industry )
Seuss, Dr. (Geisel)The Cat in the Hat – Green Eggs and Ham – How the Grinch Stole Christmas
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- D3
PECUNIARY
PENITENT
POMPOUS
PRODIGY
PROTRACT
White, T. H. The Once and Future King (modern revisiting of Malory’s Arthurian Legends)
Hebrt, GeorgeDune
Lewis, SinclairMain Street - Babbit – Elmer Gantry
Wright, RichardBlack Boy – Native Son
Stone, IrvingThe Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo) – Lust for Life (Van Gogh)
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- D4
RAPACIOUS
REPUDIATE
SACRILIGOUS
SCARAB
SCHISM
Kipling, RudyardThe Jungle Book – Kim (also the Poem “If”)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan(creator of Sherlock Holmes) Short Stories of the famous British Detective.
Joyce, JamesA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Ulysseys - Finnegan’s Wake
Orwell, GeorgeAnimal Farm – 1984 (British critic of communism in his allegories and Sci.Fi. Works)
Conrad, JosesphHeart of Darkness – Lord Jim
CULTURAL LITERACY & HONORS VOCABULARY- D5
SEPULCHER
SINUOUS
STRATEGM
SURMISE
SYMMETRY
Remarke, Eric Marie All Quiet on the Western Front
Mann, ThomasThe MagicMountain – Death in Venice
Neitzche, FredrichThus Spake Zarathustra (quoted as saying “God is Dead”)
Marx, CarlThe Communist Manifesto
Hitler, AdolfMein Kaumpf
Hesse, HermanDemian – Siddhartha - Steppenwolf
Kafka, FranzThe Trial – The Metamorphosis