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Sophomore Vocabulary 
Slides with detailed information about each word areon Schoology

1. ethnography

2. juxtapose

3. paradox

4. paradigm

5. improvident

6. prowess

7. discern

8. incipient

9. imperious

10. emissary

11. capricious

12. brusque

13. deft

14. introspective

15. circumspect

16. tendril

17. feign

18. wily

19. harbinger

20. devoid

21. elude

22. manifest

23. guttural

24. pandemonium

25. esoteric

26. approbation

27. trifle

28. voluble

29. sullen

30. vigor

31. derisive

32. dichotomy

33. opaque

34. transmigration

35. relinquish

36. vouch

37. filial

38. guru

39. guise

40. exemplify

41. uniformity

42. endorse

43. indignation

44. plight

45. repose

46. entreat

47. lavish

48. surmise

49. malice

50. sundry

51. chastise

52. fruitless

53. predominate

54. desolate

55. laudable

56. pernicious

57. perturbation

58. upbraid

59. monotonous

60. insubordinate

61. caliber

62. debauched

63. putrefaction

64. equanimity

65. apoplexy

66. parapet

67. zeal

68. skirmish

69. dysentery

70. dregs

71. furtive

72. abyss

73. amiss

74. obtuse

75. extenuation

76. irresolutely

77. avert

78. chattel

79. fatuous

80. surreptitious

81. aberration

82. banal

83. emaciated

84. rhetoric

85. alliteration

86. assonance

87. hyperbole

88. onomatopoeia 

89. understatement

90. anaphora

91. antithesis

92. apostrophe

93. chiasmus

94. euphemism

95. litotes

96. metonymy

97. oxymoron

98. paralipsis

32. exemplify

33. uniformity

34. endorse

35. usurper

36. impede

37. dire

38. compunction

39. mettle

40. husbandry

41. palpable

42. equivocate

43. sacrilegious

44. sundry

45. mirth

46. resolute

47. raze

48. laudable

49. appease

50. avarice 

SPRING SEMESTER:

51. decorum

52. palatial

53. indignation

54. tact

55. melancholy

56. gamut

57. indefatigable 

58. discomfiture

59. convalescence

60. monotonous

61. burgeon

62. sallow

63. plait

64. wanton

65. posterity

66. subsume

67. detritus

68. contrite

69. swath

70. lament

71. harrowing

72. broach

73. deference

74. insolence

75. solace

76. rhetoric

77. alliteration

78. assonance

79. hyperbole

80. onomatopoeia 

81. understatement

82. anaphora

83. antithesis

84. apostrophe

85. chiasmus

86. euphemism

87. litotes

88. metonymy

89. oxymoron

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