Vocabulary: World Literature

For each of the following vocabulary words, write down:
a) guessed meaning
b) dictionary definition
c) root word
d) sentence that shows the meaning of the word

#1

1. exuberant
2. dire
3. genial
4. emanated
5. sage
6. aesthetic
7. rancor
8. procured
9. ardor
10. tumult
11. impartial
12. valor

class notes: "L or T?"

#2

1. prosaic
2. austere
3. complacent
4. dubious
5. ephemeral
6. insipid
7. obscure
8. depravity
9. expedite
10. peripheral
11. taciturn
12. expedient

class notes

#3

1. fastidious
2. novel
3. parsimony
4. provincial
5. respite
6. anecdote
7. drone
8. desecrate
9. euphonious
10. cacophonous
11. guile
12. immutable

class notes


#4

1. decree
2. dejected
3. brandishing
4. disposition
5. notorious
6. pretext
7. reproach
8. redeemed
9. unsurpassed
10. reprieve
11. strife
12. defilement

class notes

#5

1. devoid
2. disheveled
3. lamentable
4. ostentatious
5. patron
6. contour
7. languid
8. allure
9. protuberance

10. sublime
11. parody
12. nebulous

class notes

#1b

1. prodigious
2. supercilious
3. pare
4. docile
5. omnipotent
6. temperate
7. stupor
8. aperture
9. enmity
10. posterity
11. dun
12. fluster

class notes

#2b

 

#3b

 

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