English I Honors: Vocabulary Week 2

(adj) believing that people act only out of selfish motives

• abrasive

• engender

• cynical

• epistle

(n) a letter (form of communication)

• nuance

• knotty

• hangar

• epistle

(n) something subtle; a fine shade of meaning

• plagiarism

• nuance

• renown

• tangent

(n) fame

• engender

• tangent

• renown

• cynical

(adj) hidden; undercover

• covert

• bilk

• cynical

• abrasive

(adj) rough; coarse; harsh

• bilk

• abrasive

• epistle

• hangar

(n) storage area (like a garage) for a plane

• renown

• nuance

• knotty

• hangar

(n) going off the main subject

• epistle

• tangent

• engender

• cynical

(v) to cheat; to defraud

• engender

• covert

• bilk

• tangent

(n) taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

• plagiarism

• nuance

• bilk

• knotty