Vocabulary for Sophomore Honors – Apply as many strategies as necessary to master these words

Chapter 1 Introduction

  1. Rationalism
  2. inoculation
  3. Deism

Native American Oral Traditions/Myths

  1. myth
  2. archetype
  3. conveyed
  4. tenacious
  5. anecdote

John Smith Handout

  1. steadfast
  2. guile
  3. amorous
  4. delectable
  5. fable
  6. gallantry
  7. chivalry
  8. providence

Anne Bradstreet Biography and Poetry

  1. precariously
  2. muse
  3. inversion
  4. succorless
  5. bereft
  6. chide
  7. pelf
  8. ought
  9. recompense
  10. manifold
  11. persevere
  12. irrevocable
  13. inevitable
  14. ignorant
  15. oblivious
  16. visage
  17. irksome

Philip Freneau Poetry

  1. vestige
  2. frail
  3. venison
  4. timorous
  5. quaff
  6. vex
  7. epitaph
  8. tempest
  9. tufted
  10. barque
  11. repose
  12. abyss

Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”

  1. revere
  2. arduous
  3. solace
  4. insidious
  5. comports
  6. reconciliation
  7. subjugation
  8. martial
  9. rivet
  10. entreaty
  11. supplication
  12. beseech
  13. remonstrated
  14. prostrated
  15. interposition
  16. tyrannical
  17. interposition
  18. spurned
  19. fond
  20. formidable
  21. adversary
  22. supinel
  23. delusive
  24. vigilant
  25. base
  26. inevitable
  27. extenuate
  28. gale
  29. resounding
  30. brethren

Thomas Jefferson from The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence & “A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled”

  1. pusillanimous
  2. censures
  3. reprobating
  4. complaisance
  5. inalienable
  6. prudence
  7. transient
  8. usurpations
  9. evinces
  10. despotism
  11. constrains
  12. expunge
  13. candid
  14. assent
  15. inestimable
  16. endeavored
  17. naturalization
  18. tenure
  19. arbitrary
  20. abdicated
  21. mercenaries
  22. perfidy
  23. insurrection
  24. confiscation
  25. opprobrium
  26. infidel
  27. obtruded
  28. redress
  29. magnanimity
  30. kindred
  31. consanguinity
  32. renounce
  33. acquiesce

Chapter 2 Introduction

  1. lyceum
  2. utopian
  3. Romanticism
  4. cognizant
  5. Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography, “Nature,” & “Self-Reliance”

  1. vehement
  2. Unitarian
  3. Calvinist
  4. indifferent
  5. theology
  6. pulpit
  7. chamber
  8. sublime
  9. envoys
  10. admonishing
  11. reverence
  12. kindred
  13. manifold
  14. indubitably
  15. integrate
  16. impertinent
  17. exhilaration
  18. perpetual
  19. decorum
  20. perennial
  21. calamity
  22. blithe
  23. connate
  24. tranquil
  25. occult
  26. frolic
  27. conviction
  28. proportionate
  29. imparted
  30. manifest
  31. predominating
  32. aversion
  33. integrity
  34. absolve

Henry David Thoreau Biography and “Resistance to Civil Government”

  1. jaunt
  2. pined
  3. expedient
  4. posterity
  5. earnest
  6. din
  7. alacrity
  8. inherent
  9. fain
  10. eradication
  11. contemplations
  12. insurrection
  13. penitent
  14. homage
  15. indifference
  16. effectual
  17. impetuous
  18. burghers

Romantic Poetry

  1. whither
  2. fowler
  3. crimson
  4. plashy
  5. marge
  6. billows
  7. chafed
  8. illimitable
  9. abyss
  10. nook
  11. sluggish
  12. sages
  13. ignorance
  14. ambitious
  15. revere
  16. sire
  17. bequeath
  18. sinew
  19. ebbing
  20. pine
  21. abode
  22. meek
  23. plodding
  24. azure
  25. anemone
  26. meandering
  27. rivulet
  28. jutting
  29. spout
  30. shimmering
  31. Johnswort
  32. verdure
  33. loitering
  34. rill
  35. purling
  36. staid
  37. furrows
  38. integument
  39. pelf
  40. discern
  41. haze
  42. woof
  43. ethereal
  44. gauze
  45. aerial
  46. estuary
  47. frith
  48. billows
  49. owlet
  50. pinioned
  51. heath
  52. serenity
  53. clipper
  54. pendant
  55. plaudits
  56. entrenchments
  57. gab
  58. yawp
  59. coaxes
  60. lacy

Dark Romantic Poetry

  1. indifference
  2. distraught
  3. quaint
  4. lore
  5. surcease
  6. entreating
  7. obeisance
  8. mien
  9. beguiling
  10. countenance
  11. craven
  12. ungainly
  13. placid
  14. dirges
  15. gaunt
  16. divining
  17. tufted
  18. respite
  19. nepenthe
  20. coveted
  21. phlegmatical
  22. azure
  23. charnel
  24. maw
  25. peril
  26. asylum
  27. dotard
  28. lethargic
  29. ravener
  30. martial
  31. infatuate
  32. sullen
  33. spurs
  34. jarred
  35. inertia
  36. impetuous
  37. precipice
  38. apt
  39. ponderous
  40. nimble
  41. orient
  42. pomp
  43. ply
  44. gaud
  45. zeal
  46. plied
  47. cogently
  48. strife
  49. caloric
  50. clangor
  51. fray
  52. singe

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

  1. melancholy
  2. sublime
  3. insoluble
  4. precipitous
  5. sojourn
  6. proprietor
  7. munificent
  8. unobtrusive
  9. equivocal
  10. dilapidation
  11. stealthy
  12. phantasmagoric
  13. trepidation
  14. trellised
  15. vitality
  16. vivacious
  17. wan
  18. cadaverousness
  19. pallid
  20. Arabesque
  21. futile
  22. tremulous
  23. solace
  24. anomalous
  25. trivial
  26. emaciated
  27. apathy
  28. cataleptical
  29. prostrating
  30. dirges
  31. perversion
  32. brooded
  33. rhapsodies
  34. dominion
  35. seraph
  36. dallied
  37. ramparts
  38. pertinacity
  39. sentience
  40. phantasm
  41. incubus
  42. miasma
  43. uncouth
  44. prolixity
  45. malice
  46. prodigious
  47. valorously
  48. tarried
  49. clangorous
  50. emaciated

Chapter 4 Introduction

  1. emancipation
  2. impromptu
  3. avidly
  4. cataclysm
  5. pessimism
  6. elation
  7. futility
  8. posterity
  9. Realism
  10. chivalric
  11. aversion
  12. malice
  13. fidelity
  14. Regionalism
  15. Naturalism

“The Lowest Animal”

  1. dispositions
  2. obliges
  3. conjectured
  4. postulate
  5. caliber
  6. wantonly
  7. scrupled
  8. appease
  9. chicane
  10. avaricious
  11. miserly
  12. harbors
  13. broods
  14. harems
  15. concubines
  16. atrocious
  17. zealot
  18. heretics
  19. sordid
  20. bondage
  21. sneers

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary

Chapter 1

  1. victuals
  2. snuff

Chapter 2

  1. highwayman

Chapter 3

  1. Providence
  2. ambuscade

Chapter 7

  1. palavering

Chapter 8

  1. parson
  2. gapped
  3. Abolitionist

Chapter 9

  1. reticule

Chapter 12

  1. towhead
  2. wigwam

Chapter 17

  1. pensive

Chapter 18

  1. decanters

Chapter 19

  1. galoot
  2. scow
  3. carpetbagger
  4. temperance
  5. forlorn
  6. dauphin

Chapter 20

  1. haughty
  2. dissipating
  3. muse
  4. earnest
  5. contrite

Chapter 21

  1. chipper
  2. britches
  3. sublime
  4. calamity
  5. contagion

Chapter 22

  1. cavort
  2. gaudiest

Chapter 23

  1. rapscallion
  2. indifferent

Chapter 24

  1. lath
  2. pious
  3. yawl

Chapter 25

  1. doxology
  2. passel
  3. obsequies

Chapter 27

  1. melodeon
  2. colicky

Chapter 28

  1. muggins

Chapter 30

  1. cravat

Chapter 32

  1. stile
  2. waylay

Chapter 33

  1. petrify

Chapter 34

  1. vittles
  2. brickbat

Chapter 35

  1. contrive

Chapter 36

  1. tallow

Chapter 37

  1. insurrection
  2. addled

Chapter 39

  1. blithesome

Chapter 41

  1. gunnel = gunwale
  2. harum-scarum

Chapter 5 Introduction

  1. cynicism
  2. American Dream
  3. (avoid page 564!)
  4. gentility
  5. Marxism
  6. psychoanalysis
  7. stream of consciousness
  8. Prohibition
  9. lucrative
  10. flamboyance
  11. Harlem Renaissance
  12. Symbolism
  13. Imagism
  14. juxtaposes

Marx Packet

  1. dialectically
  2. metaphysically
  3. Bourgeoisie
  4. Proletariat
  5. philanthropic
  6. feudal
  7. heretofore
  8. antithetical
  9. hegemony
  10. ostensibly
  11. ideology
  12. aesthetic
  13. genteel
  14. delectably
  15. nuanced

Freud Packet

  1. hysteria
  2. erudition
  3. phallic symbol
  4. yonic symbol
  5. contentious
  6. slavishly
  7. Unconscious
  8. unbearable
  9. sublimate
  10. repress
  11. consecrate
  12. oral/anal/genital stages
  13. propriety
  14. fixated
  15. punitive
  16. Oedipus Complex
  17. capitulate
  18. latency
  19. indifferent
  20. Electra Complex
  21. Id
  22. Ego
  23. Superego
  24. panoply
  25. discontent

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

  1. dramatic monologue
  2. etherized
  3. insidious
  4. digress
  5. deferential
  6. obtuse

The Great Gatsby

Chapter 1

1.levity

2.quivering

3.wake

4.Teutonic

5.epigram

6.contour

7.colossal

8.wistfully

9.irrecoverable

10.supercilious

11.effeminate

12.swank

13.fractiousness

14.paternal

15.pungent

16.buoyed

17.irrelevant

18.imperceptibly

19.ecstatically

20.retorted

21.incredulously

22.accentuated

23.languidly

24.unobtrusively

25.bantering

26.complacency

27.extemporizing

28.vigil

29.sedative

30.cynical

31.peremptorily

32.libel

Chapter 2

33.oculist

34.solemn

35.sauntered

36.sumptuous

37.proprietor

38.pastoral

39.regal

40.haughtily

41.apathetically

42.rakish

43.disdain

44.flounced

45.ambiguously

46.simultaneously

Chapter 3

47.gaudy

48.permeate

49.prodigality

50.erroneous

51.vehemently

52.innuendo

53.homogeneity

54.staid

55.spectroscopic

56.melancholy

57.florid

58.corpulent

59.wan

60.provincial

61.jovial

62.convivial

63.jauntiness

64.obstetrical

65.rivulets

66.vinous

67.asunder

68.dignified

69.indifferent

70.deplorably

71.indignant

72.malevolence

73.tantalizing

74.tumultuous

75.incessant

76.caterwauling

77.crescendo

78.poignant

79.affectations

80.row

81.subterfuges

82.insolent

Chapter 4

83.punctilious

84.non-olfactory

85.somnambulatory

86.juxtaposition

87.succulent

88.benediction

89.monopolizing

90.beaux

91.facade

Chapter 5

92.elongating

93.tactlessly

94.ecstatic

95.distraught

96.obstinate

97.vestige

98.disheveled

99.corrugated

100. colossal

101.nebulous

Chapter 6

102.laudable

103.insidious

104.Platonic

105. meretricious

106.ineffable

107.reveries

108.robust

109.turgid

110. contingencies

111.debauchee

112.ingratiate

113.perturbed

114.genially

115.septic

116.lethargic

117.chafed

118.euphemisms

119.rouged

120.menagerie

121.dilatory

Chapter 7

122.boisterously

123.portentous

124.libertine

125.vicariously

126.paternal

127.sagely

128.rancor

129.magnanimous

130.presumptuous

131. expostulation

132. truculent

133. marred

Chapter 8

134.unscrupulously

135.redolent

136.vestibule

137.interminable

138.garrulous

139.forlorn

140.fortuitously

141.amorphous

Chapter 9

142.adventitious

143.pasquinade

144.superfluous

145.pander

146.aesthetic

147.recedes

Robert Frost Poetry

  1. flinty
  2. guileless
  3. Petrarchan Sonnet
  4. bough
  5. hoary
  6. russet
  7. discerned
  8. rebuke
  9. blight
  10. kindred

The Catcher in the Rye Vocabulary

148.ostracized

149.innumerable

150.qualm

151.sadist

152.exhibitionist

153.liberate

154.caddy

155.monotonous

156.halitosis

157.unscrupulous

158.pacifist

159.lavish

160.conscientious

161.incognito

162.suave

163.putrid

164.verification

165.jitterbug

166.immaterial

167.nonchalant

168.spendthrift

169.bourgeois

170.sacrilegious

171.furlough

172.aristocratic

173.boisterous

174.foyer

175.pedagogical

176.provocative

177.stenographer

Contemporary History Packet & Chapter 6 Introduction

  1. malaise
  2. paratactic
  3. resonate
  4. existentialism
  5. atheism
  6. metaphysical
  7. absurdity
  8. futility
  9. ostensibly
  10. homogenized
  11. mediate
  12. feminism
  13. postmodern
  14. gallows
  15. inextricably
  16. infamous
  17. malignant
  18. tranquil

White Noise

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