English 10

No specific homework, but you should be reviewing your vocabulary words for next Tuesday's quiz.  The words are as follows:

1. augment (verb):  to make greater or supplement
2. boisterous (adj): rowdy and rough
3. valiant (adj): courageous
4. pernicious (adj): very harmful and destructive
5. portentous (adj): dealing with a sign, omen, or forewarning
6. posterity (noun): future generations
7. profane (adj): showing contempt toward sacred things
8. choler (noun): anger or irritability
9. virtuous (adj): having excellent morals; righteous
10. prodigious (adj): extraordinary; marvelous
11. gape (n or v): a wide opening; to be or become wide open
12. feign (v): to pretend
13. baleful (adj): destructive; deadly
14. wanton (adj): immoral; lewd
15. poultice (n): remedy; a soft, medicated mass of material applied to the body to relieve aches, inflammation, or congestion
16. unwieldy (adj): clumsy; difficult to carry because of bulk or weight
17. sallow (adj): a sickly, yellowish hue
18. peril (n): danger
19. repose (n or v): rest or relaxation; to rest
20. blazon (v): to announce or proclaim
21. ascend (v): to move upward
22. beguile (v): to deceive or mislead
23. calamity (n): a serious event causing misfortune
24. asunder (adverb): into separate parts or pieces
25. jocund (adj): cheerful; merry
26. prostrate (v): to bow or kneel down in humility or adoration
27. abhor (v): to hate or shun
28. effeminate (adj): unmanly; having the (weak) characteristics of a woman
29. adversity (n): a state of hardship or misfortune
30. gallant (adj): heroic; brave; chivalrous

I did give you more words, but you only need to know these for Tuesday's vocab quiz.