Junior English Semester One Vocab
Wray List 11
Please create original sentences for the following words, underlining the words in your sentences.
1. unscrupulous (adj.) unprincipled; conscienceless. The once-famous musician fell from stardom after many unscrupulous choices, including cheating on his wife and robbing a gun store.
2. pedagogy (n.) teaching; education; instructional methods. In graduate school I took many courses in pedagogy, but my real lessons on how to teach have come from teaching itself.
3. qualm (n.) uneasy feeling; pang of conscience as to conduct; sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness. Patricia felt a timid qualm as she wandered to the stage to present the commencement address.
4. incognito (adj.) having one's identity concealed; the disguise or character assumed by the person. We went to the Halloween party incognito; no one realized who we were until we removed our masks at midnight.
5. atheist (n.) a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. Because she married an atheist, Bonnie was excommunicated from her very strict church.
6. bourgeois (n.) a member of the middle class. Paul attempted to conceal his bourgeois tendencies from his peers, as he was embarrassed by his material gains and financial successes.
7. chiffonier (n.) a high chest of drawers or bureau often having a mirror on top. The police found the bloody weapon in the bottom drawer of the dark chiffonier.
8. foil (v.) to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk; to keep a person from succeeding. Monique’s attempts to foil her brother failed, and he continued to rise in success while she wallowed in self-pity.
9. ostracize (v.) to exclude from society, friendship, conversation, privileges; to banish one from his or her native country. Wildlife biologists have uncovered numerous examples of wild animals being ostracized from their groups.
10. sacrilegious (adj.) guilty of violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred. During my time as a vegetarian I considered it sacrilegious to eat meat.
11. putrid (adj.) in state of foul decay; rotten; low quality. The putrid meals served at the university were entirely inedible; rather than gain the ‘freshman 15’ most incoming students lost weight instead.
12. blasé (adj.) indifferent; bored; unimpressed due to an excess of worldly pleasures. Your blasé attitude will get you nowhere in life; you need to display passion or interest in something!
13. digress (v.) to deviate or wander away from the main subject. The students were intent on getting Ms. Wray to digress once again, and they eventually succeeded.
14. nonchalant (adj.) cool, calm, collected, composed. The more nonchalant of the two candidates for the position was hired; it was her relaxed demeanor that won the selection committee over.
15. boisterous (adj.) rough and noisy; rowdy; noisily jolly. Police were called to the fraternity after neighborhood complaints of boisterous and disruptive behavior.