Monday, October 12, 2015

English 12

 Complete all questions  on the sheet for "Just Lather, That's All".
Also, here are you 30 vocabulary words to date:


  1. coddle: to overprotect
  2. erudite: sophisticated; worldly
  3. saxicolous: one who is unaware; one who "lives under a rock"
  4. boisterous: rough and noisy
  5. nefarious: wicked
  6. comprehensive: including all elements or aspects of a thing
  7. impavid: fearless; intrepid
  8. etiquette: manners; customary codes of polite behaviour
  9. feign: to pretend
  10. noxious: harmful or corrupt
  11. obtuse:  stupid or dense; annoyingly insensitive
  12. dwale: to wander deliriously or as if one were asleep; a sleeping draught made from the plant known as the deadly nightshade
  13. bias: prejudice in favour or against a thing
  14. beset:  threaten persistently
  15. obsolete:  outdated; no longer of use
  16. banal:  repeated often; boring; ordinary
  17. apprise: to give notice; to inform
  18. irenic: to promote peace
  19. repertoire: a stock of pieces used for performance
  20. stoic:  emotionless; strong in the face of adversity; uncomplaining during adversity
  21. innocuous: harmless
  22. trepidation: fearfulness; anxiety
  23. nonchalant: unconcerned; elegantly casual
  24. prosaic: lacking imagination; ordinary
  25. malevolent: evil
  26. benevolent: kindly; good
  27. amoral: lacking a sense of right and wrong
  28. vex: to frustrate; to annoy
  29. candor: honesty; frankness
  30. arcane: secret; obscure; known only by a few people