Honors English 4 ~ Vocabulary List #5 Review

(adj.) known or understood by only a few; mysterious or secret

• venial

• arcane

• sanguine

• pedantic

(n.) a wide-ranging and impressive array or display; a complete suit of armor

• equanimity

• proliferate

• lugubrious

• panoply

(n.) political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires & prejudices rather than using rational argument

• demagogue

• maverick

• pariah

• mendicant

(adj.) hopeful or confident; reddish or ruddy

• sanguine

• felicitous

• arcane

• vitriolic

(adj.) forgivable; not seriously wrong, as a sin

• pittance

• inordinate

• demagogue

• venial

(n.) one who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates; a non-conformist, individualist, free thinker

• demagogue

• maverick

• pedantic

• sanguine

(adj.) able to shaped or molded without breaking; impressionable or easily influenced

• malleable

• dogged

• pertinacious

• venial

(adj.) characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules

• pertinacious

• proliferate

• pedantic

• panoply

(adj.) well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; appropriate

• sanguine

• felicitous

• arcane

• equanimity

(adj.) holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute; extremely or offensively persistent

• panoply

• venial

• vitriolic

• pertinacious