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. 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 

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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