Vocabulary Lesson 9 10th grade

DEF: faultess; without sin or blemish

• impeccable

• sardonic

• unctuous

• adamant

• inexorable

DEF: noble, generous in forgiving; free from petty feelings or acts

• inane

• gregarious

• gauche

• magnanimous

• sere

DEF: without sense or meaning; silly

• genteel

• unctuous

• erudite

• venal

• inane

DEF: hatefully or shockingly evil

• maudlin

• irascible

• heinous

• clement

• inexorable

DEF: exaggeratedly or insincerely polite

• unctuous

• fetid

• officious

• docile

• sere

REVIEW WORD DEF: amusing or odd in a whimsical way

• austere

• bacchanalian

• copious

• droll

• glib

DEF: to strive to be equal to; to imitate

• enhance

• emulate

• evoke

• postulate

• collaborate

DEF: to summon forth

• redress

• evoke

• extradite

• ostracize

• coerce

DEF: to assume or claim as true, especially when arguing

• concur

• belie

• propagate

• conscript

• postulate

REVIEW WORD DEF: to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent

• ostracize

• castigate

• collate

• condone

• conflate