SOPHOMORE VOCABULARY FOURTH LEVEL
Lesson 1 Our Evolving Language
- acronym
- affix
- coinage
- colloquial
- diminutive
- metonymy
- oxymoron
- palindrome
- portmanteau word
- spoonerism
Lesson 2 Certainty and Uncertainty
- apprehensive
- categorical
- conclusive
- dubious
- indeterminate
- precarious
- qualm
- tentative
- unequivocal
- vacillate
Lesson 3 Behavior
- beguile
- benevolent
- decorum
- demeanor
- feral
- ignoble
- mores
- provincial
- unseemly
- wily
Lesson 4 Excess
- aggrandize
- exorbitance
- grandiose
- gratuitous
- intemperate
- multifarious
- opulence
- profligate
- satiate
- surfeit
Lesson 5 Boldness and Mildness
- assertive
- brazen
- complaisant
- docile
- flamboyant
- intrepid
- mellow
- pacific
- strident
- unabashed
Lesson 6 Easily Confused Words
- affect
- effect
- depredation
- deprivation
- disinterested
- uninterested
- emigrate
- immigrate
- precede
- proceed
Lesson 7 Teaching and Explaining
- didactic
- edify
- elucidate
- erudite
- esoteric
- imbue
- indoctrinate
- pedagogy
- pedantic
- pundit
Lesson 8 Help and Improvement
- aegis
- amends
- conciliatory
- conducive
- extricate
- importune
- mediate
- mitigate
- patronize
- renovate
Lesson 9 Wealth and Poverty
- austerity
- depreciate
- equity
- frugal
- indigent
- munificent
- pecuniary
- recession
- remunerate
- solvent
Lesson 10 Criticism
- acrimonious
- chastise
- debunk
- derogatory
- disparage
- harass
- impugn
- innuendo
- invective
- vilify
Lesson 11 Humor
- banter
- caricature
- droll
- facetious
- flippant
- hilarity
- ludicrous
- mirth
- whimsical
- witticism
Lesson 12 Similarities and Differences
- analogy
- antithesis
- commensurate
- congruence
- deviate
- disparity
- heterogeneous
- homogeneous
- nuance
- tantamount
Lesson 13 Governing and Authority
- autocratic
- autonomy
- caste
- despot
- feudal
- hegemony
- oligarchy
- sovereign
- totalitarian
- usurp
Lesson 14 Care and Precision
- diligence
- fastidious
- finicky
- impudent
- judicious
- meticulous
- minutia
- slovenly
- trepidation
- unmindful
Lesson 15 Crime and Wrongdoing
- condemn
- culpable
- exonerate
- extort
- incorrigible
- malfeasance
- misdemeanor
- purloin
- ruffian
- unscrupulous
Lesson 16 Exerting and Yielding Power
- august
- condescend
- deference
- grovel
- lackey
- predominate
- slavish
- subjugation
- supercilious
- sycophant
Lesson 17 Openness and Concealment
- flagrant
- furtive
- latent
- ostensible
- salient
- sequester
- subterfuge
- surreptitious
- unobtrusively
- vaunt
Lesson 18 Words from the French
- adroit
- blasé
- cliché
- clientele
- entrepreneur
- forte
- gauche
- naïve
- nonchalant
- rendezvous
Lesson 19 Sleepiness and Laziness
- dilatory
- languid
- lethargy
- melancholy
- quiescent
- repose
- sloth
- somnambulate
- soporific
- stupor
Lesson 20 Liking and Disliking
- abhor
- affinity
- animosity
- ardent
- disdain
- enamor
- estrange
- kudos
- pejorative
- repugnance
Lesson 21 Strength and Defense
- assail
- asylum
- bulwark
- citadel
- fortitude
- invincible
- mettle
- resilient
- stalwart
- stamina
Lesson 22 The Root –ject-
- abject
- conjecture
- dejected
- interject
- jettison
- jetty
- jut
- objectionable
- projectile
- trajectory
Lesson 23 The Root –cred-
- accredit
- credence
- credential
- credibility
- creditable
- credulous
- creed
- discredit
- incredulous
- miscreat
Lesson 24 The Root –vert-
- aversion
- avert
- diversity
- diversion
- inadvertently
- incontrovertible
- invert
- irreversible
- revert
- vertigo
Lesson 25 The Roots –cede- and –grad-
- cede
- concede
- deceased
- egress
- gradation
- gradient
- predecessor
- regress
- transgress
- unprecedented
Lesson 26 The Root –cur-
- concurrent
- courier
- cursory
- discursive
- incur
- incursion
- precursor
- recourse
- recurrent
- succor
Lesson 27 The Root –sent- and –path-
- apathy
- assent
- empathy
- pathetic
- pathology
- presentiment
- sensational
- sensibility
- sententious
- sentient
Lesson 28 Time
- ensue
- ephemeral
- harbinger
- imminent
- interim
- interminable
- perennial
- precipitate
- provisional
- retrospective
Lesson 29 Levels of Activity or Excitement
- alacrity
- composure
- ennui
- imperturbable
- impetuous
- incite
- indolent
- inertia
- pandemonium
- serenity
Lesson 30 Density, Weight, and Texture
- attenuate
- diaphanous
- effulgent
- encumber
- evanescent
- palpable
- permeate
- pliant
- ponderous
- viscous