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English Survey Grade 09 Mrs. Galvin

  1. Dank
    Moist
  2. Condone
    to disregard or overlook
  3. Zealous
    diligent
  4. deplorable
    causing sadness
  5. Scruple
    Small Amount
  6. Impartial
    Showing no favoritism
  7. Imperious
    Demanding
  8. Emanate
    To come from
  9. Presume
    To take for granted
  10. Dire
    Dreadful
  11. Fervent
    Having intense feelings
  12. Preclude
    To make impossible
  13. Fettered
    Chained
  14. Explicit
    Definite
  15. Repose
    calmness
  16. Flagon
    Container for liquid
  17. Niter
    Salt Deposite
  18. Implore
    To beg
  19. Amontillado
    Variety of Sherry
  20. Impunity
    Protection from punishment
  21. Accost
    In a bold way
  22. Connoisseurship
    Expertese
  23. Rakishly
    Basically
  24. Distraught
    Troubled
  25. Haggard
    Very exhausted appearence
  26. Craven
    Fearful
  27. Insolent
    Bold in a reckless way
  28. Insinuatingly
    Arousing doubts
  29. Pandemonium
    Wild dissorder
  30. Derisive
    Mocking
  31. Inscrutable
    Mysterious
  32. Timorously
    Timid
  33. Restive
    Nervous
  34. Solicitude
    Concern
  35. Finality
    Being Settled
  36. Incomprehensible
    Not understandable
  37. desolation
    Deserted
  38. Progeny
    Desendants
  39. Interred
    Burried
  40. Inaugurate
    To make a formal beginning
  41. Conspiracy
    Secretly planning
  42. Potent
    Strong and powerful
  43. Muse
    Inspiration
  44. Cavort
    To run or jump playfully
  45. Self-possessed
    In control of oneself
  46. Duly
    Rightfully
  47. Infirmity
    Weakness
  48. Moor
    A tract of open, rolling, wild land
  49. Imminent
    Likely to happen
  50. Caul
    Thin membrane (newborn babies)
  51. Careen
    To move from side to side
  52. Serene
    Calm
  53. Infallibility
    Uncable of failure
  54. Blighted
    A plant dicease
  55. Doggedness
    Stubborn
  56. Reiterate
    Repeat
  57. Precariously
    Dangeriously
  58. Heresy
    Contraversal belief
  59. Anachronism
    An event that takes place out of its time in history
  60. Epithet
    A descriptive phrase used for characterization (Man's best friend)
  61. Allusion
    When a work of literature refers to another work or literature
  62. Jargon
    Specific language for specific people
  63. "The Most Dangerous Game" is by _____________
    Richard Connell
  64. "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is by _____________
    Frank R. Stockton
  65. "The Horned Toad" is by _____________
    Gerald Haslam
  66. "The Open Window" is by _____________
    Saki (H. H. Munro)
  67. "The Cask of Amontillado" is by _____________
    Edgar Allan Poe
  68. "The Fifty-first Dragon" is by _____________
    Heywood Broun
  69. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is by _____________
    James Thurber
  70. "A Christmas Memory" is by _____________
    Truman Capote
  71. "The Scarlet Ibis" is by _____________
    James Hurst
Author
Anonymous
ID
60732
Card Set
English Survey Grade 09 Mrs. Galvin
Description
Mid Term Vocab
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