Below Is the List of Vocabulary Words We Will Study This Semester. You Are Expected To

Vocabulary Name______

Semester 2

English 9 Hour _____

Below is the list of vocabulary words we will study this semester. You are expected to study these words, to thoroughly understand them, and to apply them to your writing and class discussion in a competent manner.

I recommend that you do not list definitions on this page so you may quiz yourself. You will find other pages in this packet where you can list definitions, synonyms, and other information about these words.

atone

augment

avert

base

beguiled

chide

consort

covet

endeavor

enmity

fickle

fiend

heed

illustrious

inundate

pernicious

reverence

scathe

toil

transgression

vice

vile

vindicate

virtue

Vocabulary Hints

atone / “She tries to live every day as a good person. She tries to atone for what she did almost 33 years ago.”—Christie Webb
augment / “Mark will definitely augment our offense when he is in the lineup and prove to be a threat off the bench with the game on the line.” –Brian Sabian
avert / “The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.”—Adolf Hitler
base / “Clayton Weatherston may have prided himself on being an intellectual, but his actions were base, and actually reflect nothing more than a pathetic wretch at the core of his being.”—Jared Smith
beguiled / “Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.”—Roger Ebert
chide / “After Louisville calls a pass play that goes for a touchdown (making the score 56-13), [I] chided Oregon State for playing man coverage. I know this is an unpopular opinion, ... but it's not Louisville's job to stop themselves.”—Chris Spielman
consort / “Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.”--Ovid
covet / “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain”—Mark Twain
endeavor / “Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”—Kenny Ausubel
enmity / “Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.”—Pervez Musharraf
fickle / “TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.”—Tom Brokaw
fiend / “Many become brave when the fiend flees.”—Dutch Proverb
heed / “Advice is least heeded when most needed”—English Proverb
illustrious / “Brendan Winters had perhaps his finest game in a Davidson uniform. He has had many, many illustrious games in his career. But to have that finest one on championship Sunday is quite a special feat.”—Bob McKillop
inundate / “When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.”—Gary Larson
pernicious / “Your assembly is today called to vote on the means to dissuade and combat one of the most barbarous and pernicious forms of violence: terrorism. The ingredients of this menace exists, the plans for violent action on our soil are real.”—Nicholas Sarkozy
reverence / “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”—John Adams
scathe / “He's known for being a good negotiator and less confrontational. And you won't see him issuing any scathing public statements.”—Alex Koppelman
toil / “The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”—Adam Smith
transgression / “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.”—The Bible
vice / “The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”—Jean de la Bruyere
vile / “We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.”—Albert Camus
vindicate / “Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.”—Immanuel Kant
virtue / “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”--Cicero

Vocabulary in Depth

atone