Honors English 9 Midterm Vocabulary 2025 PDF

effervescent lively, high-spirited, enthusiastic mawkish excessively sentimental, often in a silly way parsimonious frugal to the point of stinginess perspicacious having mental perception and understanding spurious not genuine, authentic, true, or sincere surreptitious marked by stealth and se...

effervescent lively, high-spirited, enthusiastic mawkish excessively sentimental, often in a silly way parsimonious frugal to the point of stinginess perspicacious having mental perception and understanding spurious not genuine, authentic, true, or sincere surreptitious marked by stealth and secrecy tantamount equal in value, meaning, or effect truculent easily annoyed and always ready to argue or fight visceral instinctive feelings not based on reason or logic impertinently not showing proper respect inconspicuously not noticeable or prominent ingeniously creatively or imaginatively inquisitively given to inquiry, research, or asking questions judiciously in a way that shows good judgment obnoxiously highly objectionable or offensively reluctantly feeling or showing hesitation, aversion, or unwillingness solemnly in a dignified and thoughtful way unethically against proper rules of conduct or morality acknowledge to admit the existence or truth of; to show appreciation for accost to approach and address someone in a bold or aggressive way compensate to pay for work done, for something lost or damaged, or for some inconvenience; to adjust or make up for decimate to reduce drastically, especially in number defer to put off or to delay justify to show to be just or right litigate to use the judicial process to decide and settle something malign to speak about or criticize in a harmful way obfuscate to make unclear copious abundant in supply or quantity culinary related to the kitchen or cooking ebullient overflowing with cheerfulness, enthusiasm, or excitement frugal showing economy in the use of money and/or resources grandiose excessively ambitious; larger than life heterogeneous consisting of diverse elements that may not seem to fit together homogeneous of the same kind or nature immutable unchanging over time or unable to be changed obsequious too eager to please someone, often in an insincere way