English III Vocab Final

state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully.

• Certify

• Assert

• Adamant

• Reciprocal

closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered

• Relevant

• Proceedings

• Disputation

• Languid

attest or confirm in a formal statement

• Certify

• Strident

• Sporadic

• Elicit

unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

• Immutable

• Divot

• Sporadic

• Dilatory

(of a conclusion or agreement) done or reached decisively and with authority

• Definitive

• Desolate

• Insistent

• Portentous

having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.

• Obstinate

• Elusive

• Vindictive

• Derange

the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.

• Settee

• Calumny

• Elocution

• Denizen

the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.

• Insidious

• Dilatory

• Defamation

• Lapse

the action of condemning someone to a punishment; sentencing.

• Rout

• Divot

• Surmise

• Condemnation

1. a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

• Magistrate

• Settee

• Denizen

• Rajah