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Freshman English--Vocabulary, Final Exam

Due May 28th

Scholars: Look up the words below. Write the definitions and parts of speech. This assignment must be handwritten or it will not be accepted. You are required to do this assignment, whether or not you exempt the Final Exam.

Please note that some words may be repeated. In those instances, you do not need to write the definitions again.

1.      Indifferent

2.      Exploited

3.      Collaboration

4.      Adversaries

5.      Constituents

6.      Predecessors

7.      Vulnerable

8.      Attributed

9.      Anticipated

10.   Heretical

11.   Distorted

12.   Outmoded

13.   Repudiated

14.   Radical

15.   Elegiac

16.   Euphemistic

17.   Objective

18.   Contemptuous

19.   Laudatory

20.   Disproved

21.   Candid

22.   Affected

23.   Spontaneous

24.   Manifests

25.   Nonchalant

26.   Jovial

27.   Affluent

28.   Suppresses

29.   Acquisitive

30.   Unburdens

31.   Construed

32.   Detachment

33.   Provocation

34.   Drollery

35.   Haven

36.   Recession

37.   Recoil

38.   Quizzical

39.   Ironic

40.   Melancholy

41.   Cliché

42.   Conventional

43.   Notations

44.   Allusion

45.   Psychological

46.   Deficiencies

47.   Complements

48.   Competent

49.   Transform

50.   Tentative

51.   Imperceptible

52.   Intuitive

53.   Trivial

54.   Hypothetical

55.   Resigned

56.   Wistful

57.   Figurative

58.   Resentful

59.   Perspective

60.   Organic

61.   Innate

62.   Transient

63.   Subordinates

64.   Composure

65.   Autocratically

66.   Ensemble

67.   Disapprobation

68.   Bemusement

69.   Awe

70.   Rapport

71.   Integrity

72.   Premonition

73.   Mysticism

74.   Predilection

75.   Subservience

76.   Divergence

77.   Noncommittal

78.   Stipulations

79.   Quagmires

80.   Forfeit

81.   Enmity

82.   Mocks

83.   Trepidation

84.   Endorsed

85.   Compassion

86.   Noncommittal

87.   Validity

88.   Habitat

89.   Allocating

90.   Extant

91.   Obscure

92.   Voluminous

93.   Specifications

94.   Transpiration

95.   Canopy

96.   Dissipation

97.   Sustenance

98.   Manifestation

99.   Mutiny

100.                    Quell

101.                    Resolve

102.                    Clatter

103.                    Cobblestones

104.                    Transience

105.                    Conspiratorial

106.                    Benevolent

107.                    Resentful

108.                    Pugnacious

109.                    Understatement

110.                    Archaism

111.                    Simile

112.                    Digression

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