Honors English 4 ~ Vocabulary #6 Review

(adj.) as good as or equivalent in effect or significance

• tantamount

• maunder

• posterity

• plebeian

(adj.) swollen or distended; overblown; pompous or bombastic

• squalid

• phlegmatic

• plebeian

• turgid

(adj.) utterly detestable or abominable; very bad

• surreptitious

• duplicitous

• execrable

• tantamount

(n.) approval; commendation

• assimilate

• approbation

• prognosticate

• amnesty

(adj.) secret or sneaky; stealthy

• maelstrom

• engender

• macabre

• surreptitious

(n.) a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool; a restless, disordered, or chaotic state of affairs

• maelstrom

• ephemeral

• maunder

• turgid

(v.) to forecast or predict

• surreptitious

• amnesty

• prognosticate

• placate

(n.) a pardon or forgiveness for past offenses, esp. political ones

• prognostication

• assimilation

• amnesty

• approbation

(adj.) deceitful; misleading; double-dealing

• execrable

• duplicitous

• ephemeral

• phlegmatic

(v.) to talk in an ambling, foolish, or meaningless way; to move or act in an aimless, confused manner

• engender

• marauding

• maunder

• duplicitous