Vocabulary Word Lists
Year #1 – ACT/SAT Words Each Monday one list below is assigned.  By Wednesday students are to write the definition for each word and use it correctly in a sentence.  Each Friday there is a ten question quiz on the words.
Academic Vocabulary – Year #1
1. Protagonist 2. Antagonist 3. Parts of Speech 4. Compounds 5. Dash 6. Quotation 7. Point of View 8. Alliteration 9. Characterization 10. Couplet 11. Conflict 12. Irony 13. Narrator 14. Onomatopoeia 15. Theme 16. Author’s Purpose 17. Bias 18. Criteria 19. Excerpt 20. Audience 21. Thesis 22. Assonance 23. Conclusion 24. Consonance 25. Monologue 26. Soliloquy 27. Sonnet 28. Speaker 29. Topic 30. Poem
List #1
1	vacillate (v.)
2	vehement (adj.)
3	venerate (v.)
4	veracity (n.)
5	verbose (adj.)
6	viable (adj.)
7	vilify (v.)
8	vindicate (v.)
9	vindictive (adj.)
10	yen (n.)
List #2
1	virtuoso (n.)
2	virulent (adj.)
3	volatile (adj.)
4	voluble (adj.)
5	vulnerable (adj.)
6	whimsical (n.)
7	virago (n.)
8	sanction (v.)
9	sanctuary (n.)
10	vertigo (n.)
List #3
1	adulation
2	aghast
3	askew
4	exorbitant
5	gamut
6	pauper
7	privation
8	prospects
9	ruinous
10	vexation
List #4
1	affable
2	amenity
3	condone
4	deplorable
5	disarming
6	droll
7	elide
8	imperative
9	quarry
10	scruple
11	solicitously
12	stamina
13	tangible
14	uncanny
List #5
1	prodigy
2	indignity
3	reproach
4	discordant
5	lament
6	ream
7	reverie
8	devastate
9	fiasco
10	betrayal
List #6
1	casually
2	conical
3	consolation
4	diffuse
5	elegantly
6	execute
7	inertia
8	primitive
9	silhouetted
10	transparent
List #7
1	intermittently
2	hull
3	despondent
4	hoist
5	tether
6	hypothermic
7	amalgam
8	incredulously
9	maelstrom
10	flail
List #8
1	coagulate
2	coalition
3	company
4	compel
5	complacent
6	comply
7	compress
8	compromise
9	concoction
10	concurrent
List #9
1	condense
2	condescend
3	congeal
4	congregation
5	congruence
6	conjugation
7	contemporary
8	context
9	coordinate
10	condiment
List #10
1	conclude
2	duration
3	exponential
4	fraction
5	hinder
6	instantaneous
7	integer
8	linear
9	nostalgic
10	parallel
List #11
1	progress
2	protracted
3	quadruple
4	quantitative
5	scanty
6	static
7	transient
8	undulating
9	uniform
10	momentary
List 12
1	compel
2	conventional
3	indulge
4	inscrutable
5	irreparable
6	clamoring
7	exception
8	induced
9	perfidy
10	torrent
List 13
1	bland
2	concretely
3	contaminated
4	convey
5	devastated
6	procrastinating
7	punitive
8	spontaneous
9	transcend
10	uniqueness
List 14
1	adaptation
2	apprehension
3	concession
4	confirmation
5	contention
6	coronation
7	deliberation
8	desertion
9	detention
10	disruption
List 15
1	disruption
2	distortion
3	filtration
4	innovation
5	intervention
6	perfection
7	prosecution
8	recommendation
9	resignation
10	resolution
List 16
1	atrocious
2	bountiful
3	deceitful
4	dutiful
5	envious
6	fateful
7	felicitous
8	fitful
9	forceful
10	dexterous
List 17
1	libelous
2	monotonous
3	notorious
4	sacrilegious
5	succulent
6	Tedious
7	truculent
8	virulent
9	vivacious
10	hazardous
List 18: Romeo & Juliet
1	pernicious
2	transgression
3	augmenting
4	grievance
5	kinsman
6	cunning
7	variable
8	procure
9	vile
10	sallow
List 19: Romeo & Juliet
1	waverer
2	lamentable
3	unwieldy
4	gallant
5	fray
6	martial
7	agile
8	exile
9	tedious
10	eloquence
List 20: Romeo & Juliet
1	abhors
2	fickle
3	pensive
4	vial
5	enjoined
6	prostrate
7	loathsome
8	solace
9	remnants
10	penury
List 21: Romeo & Juliet / Review
1	haughty
2	peruse
3	sepulcher
4	ambiguities
5	apprehension
6	deliberation
List 22
1	Sarcasm (n.) [Sarcastic is the adjective]
2	Satirical (adj.)
3	Saturate (v.)
4	Precarious (adj.)
5	Precedent (n.)
6	Prattle (v.)
7	Precipitate (adj.)
8	Preclude (v.)
9	Precocious (adj.)
10	Predilection (n.)
List 23
1	Preeminent (adj.
2	Pretentious (adj.,)
3	Preposterous (adj.)
4	Proclivity (n.)
5	Prodigious (adj.)
6	Nostalgia (n.)
7	Novelty (n.)
8	Nuance (n.)
9	Nurture (v.)
10	Obdurate (adj.)
List 24
1	Officious (adj.)
2	Ominous (adj.)
3	Abate (v.)
4	Adulation (n.)
5	Amorphous (adj.)
6	Anomaly (n.)
7	Antediluvian (adj.).
8	Lachrymose (adj.)
9	Lascivious. (adj.)
10	Leviathan (n.)
List 25
1	Lexicon (n.)
2	Loquacious (adj.)
3	Garrulous (adj.)
4	Malaise (n.)
5	Malign (v.)
6	Flashback (n.)
7	Connotation (n.)
8	Denotation (n.).
9	Foil (n.)
10	Inference (n.)
List 26
1	Arrant (adj.)
2	Brusque (adj.)
3	Caliber (n.)
4	Discourse (n.)
5	Contretemps (n.)
6	Countenance (n.)
7	Daft (adj.)
8	Outré (adj.)
9	Demented (adj.)
10	Idiosyncratic (adj.)
List 27
1	Nebulous (adj.)
2	Fatuous (adj.)
3	Inane (adj.)
4	Incantation (n.)
5	Tenebrous (adj.)
6	Perspicacious (adj.)
7	Chthonic (adj.)
8	Paradigm (n.)
9	Pernicious (adj.)
10	Petulant (adj.)
List 28
1	Meticulous (adj.)
2	Scrupulous (adj.)
3	Morose (adj.)
4	Sullen (adj.)
5	Opaque (adj.)
6	Irreverence (n.)
7	Raucous (adj.)
8	Singular (adj.)
9	Zealot (n.)
10	Address (v.)
List 29
1	Palliate (v.)
2	Hiatus (n.)
3	Impede (v.)
4	Impromptu (adj.)
5	Incarcerate (v.)
6	Immaculate (adj.)
7	Implicit (adj.)
8	Impartial (v.)
9	Destitute (adj.)
10	Impecunious (adj.)
List 30
1	illuminate (v.)
2	Heyday (n.)
3	Hallowed (adj.)
4	Gregarious (adj.)
5	Affable (adj.)
6	Gratuitous (adj.)
7	Glutton (n.)
8	Sloth (n.)
9	Hubris (n.)
10	Cupidity (n)
List 31
111	Heresy (n.)
112	Heretic (n.)
113	Machination (n.)
114	Nonchalance (n.)
115	Insouciance (n.)
116	Obstinate (adj.)
117	Indict (v.)
118	Insolvent (adj.)
119	Parochial (adj.)
120	Parry (v.)
List 32
1	Recalcitrant (adj.)
2	Recant (v.)
3	Reticent (adj.)
4	Resplendent (adj.)