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College Vocabulary · Grade 12

Grade 12 College Vocabulary

32 weeks · 640 words. Four words a day, Monday to Friday, drawn from the week's reading, the booklist and the King James Bible, with a Friday quiz.

  1. Week 1: synecdoche, metonymy, chiasmus, zeugma, litotes…
  2. Week 2: teleology, ontology, epistemology, empiricism, solipsism…
  3. Week 3: anagnorisis, peripeteia, hamartia, mimesis, bildungsroman…
  4. Week 4: lacuna, legerdemain, libation, macabre, malaise…
  5. Week 5: nabob, natty, nexus, nicety, nimbus…
  6. Week 6: peccant, pestilential, raffish, plenary, pontificate…
  7. Week 7: quail, quip, quirk, rabble, rabid…
  8. Week 8: ruffian, rummage, sallow, salve, sanctimony…
  9. Week 9: smarmy, smattering, smirk, snivel, sodden…
  10. Week 10: swathe, tactless, talisman, tendentious, termagant…
  11. Week 11: votary, waggish, wastrel, whimsy, woebegone…
  12. Week 12: aureate, balderdash, banausic, bedlam, befuddle…
  13. Week 13: cloy, colloquy, combustible, comeuppance, commandeer…
  14. Week 14: decadent, demise, deplete, depose, deputize…
  15. Week 15: dote, dowager, drab, dreary, bruit…
  16. Week 16: entente, epistolary, eponymous, erstwhile, estival…
  17. Week 17: limber, lionize, lugubrious, lyrical, modish…
  18. Week 18: agape, kerygma, kenosis, parousia, aseity…
  19. Week 19: euphuism, rondeau, onomatopoeia, syllogism, enthymeme…
  20. Week 20: calligraphy, folio, quarto, rubrication, parchment…
  21. Week 21: suzerainty, vassalage, primogeniture, demesne, enfeoff…
  22. Week 22: balustrade, colonnade, cupola, entablature, pediment…
  23. Week 23: brigand, corsair, galleon, frigate, flotilla…
  24. Week 24: acolyte, amanuensis, anchorite, bluestocking, charlatan…
  25. Week 25: affidavit, annuity, amortize, debenture, fiduciary…
  26. Week 26: perdurable, aboriginal, abecedarian, antebellum, aperture…
  27. Week 27: aggrandize, ebullient, effusive, lethargic, pestilent…
  28. Week 28: ascendancy, aforethought, altruism, antagonize, caveat…
  29. Week 29: ambit, autocracy, doctrinaire, dogma, concordance…
  30. Week 30: cerulean, anatomize, avouch, confederacy, enkindle…
  31. Week 31: arbitrement, popinjay, duteous, prig, roguish…
  32. Week 32: sectary, superflux, dissipation, monomaniac, troth…