12th Grade Vocabulary Lesson 9

DEF: full and rich in sound (in speech)

• puerile

• orotund

• churlish

• provocative

• soporific

DEF: next to last

• incumbent

• quotidian

• pervasive

• indecorous

• penultimate

REVIEW WORD DEF: wasteful and immoral

• frenetic

• lurid

• benign

• profligate

• inimical

DEF: beneficial; favorable

• benign

• culpable

• putrid

• internecine

• orotund

DEF: tending to excite or stimulate

• quotidian

• soporific

• provocative

• blithe

• stringent

REVIEW WORD DEF: to relieve; to alleviate

• expiate

• corroborate

• pander

• allay

• comprise

DEF: lacking good taste; improper

• hortatory

• indecorous

• cogent

• penultimate

• dilatory

REVIEW WORD DEF: to claim for oneself without any right or authority

• lionize

• inveigh

• promulgate

• corroborate

• arrogate

DEF: carefree and lighthearted

• procrustean

• frangible

• blithe

• wrenching

• zealous

DEF: to strengthen by adding evidence

• corroborate

• arrogate

• desiccate

• truncate

• entreat