English 10 Quarter 1 Word Wall Vocabulary

A feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation

• Exhilaration

• Squander

• Irrelevant

• Monotonous

Waste something in a reckless and foolish manner

• Gaunt

• Tantalizing

• Squander

• Calamity

Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent

• Foreboding

• Exhilaration

• Regress

• Irrelevant

Movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state

• Monotonous

• Regress

• Abscond

• Ample

Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest

• Monotonous

• Foreboding

• Antipathy

• Malaise

Extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture

• Antipathy

• Squander

• Tantalizing

• Gaunt

Something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains beyond one's reach

• Tantalizing

• Foreboding

• Calamity

• Irrelevant

A deep seated feeling of dislike

• Malaise

• Exhilaration

• Ample

• Antipathy

A great misfortune or disaster, natural disaster or serious injury; adversity; misery

• Abscond

• Exhilaration

• Calamity

• Squander

A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify

• Calamity

• Malaise

• Antipathy

• Gaunt