Vocab Week 4 English 10

Obeying, Obliging, or Yielding

• Compliant

• Ostracize

• Preclude

• Faction

Authoritative permission or approval, as for an action to authorize, approve, or allow.

• Nostalgia

• Contentious

• Sanction

• Palpable

Agreeable and eager to please

• Ostracize

• Preclude

• Complacent

• Contentious

A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life.

• Nostalgia

• Faction

• Nefarious

• Sanction

Tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: characterized by argument or controversy.

• Complacent

• Sanction

• Nostalgia

• Contentious

To exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privilege, etc. to banish

• Faction

• Compliant

• Ostracize

• Palpable

To prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible

• Nostalgia

• Preclude

• Faction

• Compliant

Readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident; capable of being touched or felt.

• Palpable

• Complacent

• Sanction

• Nefarious

A group of clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like, typically having different opinions and interests than the larger group.

• Nefarious

• Ostracize

• Faction

• Preclude

Extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous.

• Nostalgia

• Sanction

• Palpable

• Nefarious