12th Grade Honors Unit 10 Vocabulary

to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result

• accrue

• debonair

• gist

• recondite

a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work

• annotation

• equanimity

• invective

• procrastinate

a state or scene of uproar and confusion

• bedlam

• sedentary

• covert

• fortuitous

hidden, disguised, purposefully kept secret; sheltered, secluded; a sheltered place, a hiding place

• covert

• gist

• motley

• reprobate

pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in manner and appearance

• debonair

• gratuitous

• provocative

• sedentary

to demand insistently, especially in payment of a debt; a creditor; dark, dull, drab, dingy

• dun

• accrue

• imperious

• munificent

effective, producing results

• efficacioust

• bedlam

• gist

• procrastinate

calmness, composure, refusal to panic

• equanimity

• covert

• invective

• recondite

accidental, occurring by a happy chance

• fortuitous

• debonair

• motley

• sedentary

the essential part, main point, or essence

• gist

• munificent

• reprobate

• accrue