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. prodigal
20. avert
21. glower
22. delineate
23. abhorrent
24. maelstrom
25. inexorable
26. culpability
27. spendthrift
28. harbinger
29. devoid
30. elude
31. manifest
32. guttural
33. pandemonium
34. esoteric
35. approbation
36. trifle
37. voluble
38. sullen
39. vigor
40. derisive
41. dichotomy
42. opaque
43. apathy
44. relinquish
45. vouch
46. filial
47. guru
48. guise
49. exemplify
50. uniformity
51. endorse
52. indignation
53. plight
54. repose
55. entreat
56. lavish
57. surmise
58. malice
59. sundry
60. chastise
61. fruitless
62. predominate
63. desolate
64. laudable
65. pernicious
66. perturbation
67. upbraid
68. monotonous
69. insubordinate
70. caliber
71. debauched
72. putrefaction
73. equanimity
74. apoplexy
75. parapet
76. zeal
77. skirmish
78. dysentery
79. dregs
80. furtive
81. abyss
82. amiss
83. obtuse
84. extenuation
85. irresolutely
86. avert
87. chattel
88. fatuous
89. surreptitious
90. aberration
91. banal
92. emaciated
93. rhetoric
94. alliteration
95. assonance
96. hyperbole
97. onomatopoeia
98. understatement
99. anaphora
100. antithesis
101. apostrophe
102. chiasmus
103. euphemism
104. litotes
105. metonymy
106. oxymoron
107. paralipsis
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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