English 10, Period 6

Your 30 vocabulary words to date are as follows:

1. bias:  leaning towards or against an idea, issue, person, or group
2. fallacious:  based on a mistaken belief
3. anthropomorphic:  attribution of human qualities to animals
4. hiatus:  a pause in a process
5. belligerent:  to be hostile and aggressive
6. vigil:  a state of wakefulness during sleeping hours; keeping watch at night
7. epigram:  a short, humorous or satirical saying
8. intercede:  to act on another's behalf or to smooth out troubles between two parties
9. omnipotent:  all-powerful
10. murmuration:  the act of murmuring (speaking indistinctly)
11. tomfoolery:  foolish or silly behaviour; shenanigans
12. cogitate:  to think deeply or meditate on something
13. ranivorous: frog-eating
14. redamancy:  to return an act of love
15. jocularity: playfulness; intended joking
16. uproarious:  loud laughter; very funny; hilarious
17. goofy: silly
18. abomination: something which is totally detestable
19. galumph: to move heavily or clumsily
20. penurious: extreme poverty; or extreme miserliness (penny-pinching)
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 morality (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