Eng 4 Midterm Vocab

present, appearing, or found everywhere

• inauspicious

• ubiquitous

• synthesize

• gregarious

to shock or excite (someone), typically into taking action.

• assiduous

• lambast

• supplication

• galvinize

an excess or abundance of something

• surfeit

• obsolescence

• enmity

• percipience

deep-seated, often mutual hatred

• discourse

• beguile

• enmity

• apoplectic

(of a diagram or other representation) symbolic and simplified

• schematic

• didactic

• egregious

• pious

pontificate

• intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

• express one's opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic

• straying from the right course or from accepted standards

• to criticize or lecture harshly

unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated

• feckless

• jocular

• schematic

• unassailable

lambast

• straying from the right course or from accepted standards

• to criticize or lecture harshly

• to repeal, cancel, declare null and void

• overused or lacking originality and meaning

characterized by resentment or envy

• jaundiced

• pious

• inauspicious

• egregious

not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance

• impervious

• gregarious

• unassailable

• jaundiced