English 10 -- Period 8

Your first 10 vocabulary words are as follows:

1. loquacious -- chatty; very talkative
2. adequate -- enough; satisfactory for a purpose
3. abrogate -- to cancel
4. inquisitive -- curious; questioning
5. conundrum -- a confusing or difficult situation
6. epoch -- a particular time in history or a person's life
7. theology -- the study of religion
8. vindicate -- to show to be right by providing justification
9. cynosure -- an object at the focal point of attention
10. boondoggle -- work of little value that is done simply to look busy