Unit 3 Vocabulary Review (English 11)

Definition:

(v.) to steal something that has been given into one's trust; to take improperly

• peculate

• adventitous

• enjoin

• acculturation

Definition:

(v.) to assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute

• acculturation

• ascribe

• peculate

• enjoin

Definition:

(adj.) resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause; accidental; not essential

• circuitous

• peculate

• acculturation

• adventitious

Definition:

(n.) the modification of social patterns of one group by contact of those with another

• peculate

• acculturation

• adventitious

• ascribe

Definition:

(v.) to direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit

• enjoin

• ascribe

• tenuous

• adventitious

Synonym:

token; trifling, inconsequential

• ferment

• inadvertent

• nominal

• ascribe

Synonym:

to cajole, inveigle, sweet-talk

• wheedle

• noncommittal

• nominal

• seditious

Synonym:

commotion, turmoil, turbulence, unrest

• commiserate

• nominal

• ferment

• wheedle

Synonym:

to sympathize, feel sorry for, empathize

• tenuous

• wheedle

• ferment

• commiserate

Synonym:

indefinite, unwilling to take a side

• wheedle

• inadvertent

• noncommittal

• ferment