Unit 11 Vocabulary Review (English 11)

Definition:

(v.) to scatter widely

• disseminate

• discursive

• specious

• heresy

Definition:

(adj.) extremely harmful; deadly, fatal

• palpable

• corroborate

• pernicious

• abstemious

Definition:

(n.) an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of ideas that are held sacred

• gauche

• heresy

• denizen

• perceptive

Definition:

(v.) to impose by fraud; to pass off as genuine; to bring in by stealth or coercion

• florid

• disseminate

• dowdy

• foist

Definition:

(adj.) highly colored; reddish; excessively ornate, over decorated, showy

• florid

• foist

• specious

• inculcate

Synonyms:

clumsy, tactless, uncouth, maladroit

• heresy

• gauche

• specious

• abstemious

Synonyms:

tangible; plain, obvious, manifest

• denizen

• palpable

• accentuate

• perceptive

Synonyms:

conditional, dependent; a detachment

• corroborate

• dowdy

• contingent

• quail

Synonyms:

sparing, moderate, temperate

• abstemious

• accentuate

• specious

• inculcate

Synonyms:

to shrink, recoil, cower, flinch

• denizen

• disseminate

• quail

• foist