Lesson 2 Vocabulary 9th grade ELA

a direct opposite, a contrast

• ascend

• antithesis

• capricious

• defamation

to move upward, to rise from a lower station

• ascend

• banal

• esoteric

• exacerbate

strict, stern, unadorned, ascetic

• antithesis

• autonomous

• banal

• austere

independent, self-contained

• autonomous

• banal

• extol

• dawdle

Common, ordinary, lacking frshness, hackneyed

• benign

• capricious

• banal

• dawdle

not causing harm, of gentle disposition, beneficial

• ascend

• banal

• benign

• esoteric

changing suddenly, fickle

• austere

• dawdle

• capricious

• exacerbate

to waste time, to spend time idly, to move in a lackadaisical manner

• banal

• defamation

• extol

• dawdle

act of harming or ruining another's reputation

• autonomous

• dawdle

• defamation

• esoteric

understood only by a small group or a select few

• benign

• esoteric

• antithesis

• ascend