Sophomore Vocabulary
FALL SEMESTER
FALL SEMESTER
1. ethnography
2. juxtapose
3. paradox
4. paradigm
5. improvident
6. prowess
7. discern
8. imperious
9. emissary
10. capricious
11. incipient
12. brusque
13. deft
14. introspective
15. circumspect
16. specious
17. specter
18. feign
19. harbinger
20. guttural
21. pandemonium
22. voluble
23. opaque
24. transmigration
25. relinquish
26. vouch
27. filial
28. guru
29. guise
30. depilatory
31. commensalism
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
23. dichotomy
24. impede
25. dire
26. compunction
27. mettle
28. palpable
29. equivocate
30. inscrutable
31. amiss
32. sundry
33. sacrilegious
34. usurper
35. purge
36. requisition
37. decorum
38. windfall
39. indefatigable
40. queue
41. billets
42. palatial
43. indignation
44. tact
45. obliterate
46. melancholy
47. gamut
48. discomfiture
49. convalescent
50. monotonous
51. dregs
52. insubordination
53. debauched
54. putrefaction
55. apoplexy
56. sallow
57. wanton
58. destitute
59. posterity
60. detritus
61. supplication
62. discordant
63. implore
64. rectify
65. obstinate
66. undulate
67. nebulous
68. transmute
69. Alliteration
70. Assonance
71. Hyperbole
72. Onomatopoeia
73. Understatement
74. Anaphora
75. Antithesis
76. Apostrophe
77. Chiasmus
78. Euphemism
79. Litotes
80. Metonymy
81. Oxymoron
82. Synecdoche