Vocabulary

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Units 13 & 14 Vocabulary - Please update by Thursday, Feb. 16/ Quiz on Friday, March 9

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Please click on the links above for the words/ definitions. Play around with the options on how to use the flashcards. Print out the words if you would like. By Wednesday night, please write three sentences for your word. Erase your initials after you enter the sentence and part of speech. If any sentence displeases me I will write a new sentence below it in a different colored font.

1 - LB - Abet- 1. Digital cameras **abet** the photographic equivalent of stream of consciousness. 2. And you that do **abet** him in this kind. 3. It is a federal violation to aide and **abet** or harbor a fugitive and could face federal charges for doing so. 2 - LC - Blatant- 1. The stain on her shirt was blatant, however, no one told her about it. 2. The girl was very blatant when she stole the cookie, that was right in front of her mom. 3. I told my dad a blatant lie when he asked me why i had not cleaned my room. 3 - GC - Connoisseur (n): 1.Ella was a **connoisseur** of classical music. 2. The old man was a **connoisseur** of wine. 3. Gina will eventually be a **connoisseur** of vocabulary if she continues doing her homework. 4 - TC - Encumber-1. It was obvious that the nerds backpack encumbered him as he walked down the hallway. 2. Some Olympic runners are encumbered while running by being forced to jump over hurdles. 3. The poison ivy encumbered Tom Blankenship's chances of going to the whirly wizzy waterpark. 5 - JD - Inau 6 -- Opportune- adj- 1. The circumstances were opporspicioustune, for all the materials were already laying in front of him. 2. If it were not for the opportune arrival of his teammate, the ball likely would have been stolen. 3. The large amount of homework given was not opportune because the student had three tests the next day. 7 - AH - 1. Prolific- The prolific student was rewarded when she found out she was going to Columbia College. 2.John Steinbeck was a prolific writer, as he continually wrote books. 3."Stephen King is a prolific writer of fiction." 8 - CH - Amenable 1. The amenable student always listened to her teachers and principle. 2. My dad tried to be amenable to help me work on my truck even though he had work to do. 3. George was amenable to the other boys in his class, they pressured him into doing things he didn't want to. 9 - MK - Credulous -adj- 1. The credulous boy believed that his brother actually took his nose off his face. 2. The boy continued tease the credulous puppy with a doggie treat, the doggie thinking he wasgoing tofeta a treat. 3. If you're too credulous, people will take advantage of you! 10 - ML - Infirmity: 1. Due to the player's infirmity he was unable to play in the state chapionship game. 2. The mental infirmity prevented the student from getting into the college of his choice. 3. The man had many infirmities due to his old age. 11 - CM - Obdurate: 1. The obdurate student was so set in his ways that we could not accept that his answers were incorrect even after the teacher explained the corrections. 2. The obdurate toddler would not end his tantrum until he got his lollipop. 3. The obdurate dog would not do a single trick even with the persuasion of a treat. 12 -AM - Precocious 1. The precocious runner, was a prodigy, no one expected him to run a sub 5 mile. 2. The precocious 12 year old excelled on his mcas. 3. The precocious college football player rose from nothing to become a star. 13 - RP - Sadistic: 1. Some of the crime scene shows on tv involve crimes that are very sadistic. 2. Cruella de Vil is a sadistic person because she enjoys being cruel to the dalmations. 3. Many criminals go to jail for sadistic crimes. 14 - JR - Sententious: 1. When he is not delivering **sententious** commonplaces ori ndulging in heavy whimsy, he makes ana greeable guide.2.We need to stop wagging our **sententious** finger at other countries,focusing on what they are doing wrong.3. They s ucceeded, becoming prosperous, and piety mingled with smugness made the whole family insufferably **sententious**. 15 - Supplicate (verb) to beg earnestly and humbly. S1: The 18 year old supplicated to the bank for a college loan. S2: He supplicated his parents to appease his punnishment. S#: No amount of supplication could convince the teacher to change my grade. 16 - GT - Surfeit- (n) An excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) To feed or supply with anything to excess 17 - LW - Expatiate 18 - AZ- Incontrovertible: (adj) unquestionable, beyond dispute S1: The criminal will be accused guilty because the DNA evidence is incontrovertible. S2: The mans stand in the debate is incontrovertible because of clear evidence. S3: His ability to run fast is //incontrovertible// because of statistics.

Units 11 & 12 Vocabulary - Please update by Friday, Jan. 27 Quiz: Wednesday, February 8 **verb :**to scatter or spread widely. The information that the lawyer disseminated was completely false. > //Witches were burned by officials of the church for their alleged heresy.// > For years these master magicians have been //enthralling// audiences with their astounding illusions. > I remember being totally **enthrall**ed by the music and costumes S1: I could not rest until I heard the scintillating details about my cousin Kate's marriage to Prince William. S2: The lost princess's crown was scintillating and therefore desired by Flynn Ryder and his band of thieves. **20. Cupidity (n): an eager desire for something** S1: Ralphie's cupidity for a Red Ryder BB Gun kept him up at night and distracted him from his studies all day. S2: Since cupid has a greedy desire for love, one might say he shows great cupidity.
 * 1) Contingent (adj) happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental (n) A group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group. His base salary was **contingent** on his prior experience. A **contingent** of firemen quickly dispatched.
 * 2) ** Corroborate ** (verb) confirm or give support to. The corroborated evidence determined the man was guilty and he was sentenced to two years in prison.
 * 3) Denizen: Noun:An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place**. //When Kayla peered into the dumpster, she discovered a homeless denizen.//**
 * 4) Disseminate
 * 1) Florid : adjective : reddish, rosy ; flowery, excessively ornate. The florid design of the household was very beautiful.
 * 2) ** Gauche- ** (Adj)- lacking social experience or grace; crude Eating spaghetti with your hands is considered a gauche act.
 * 3) **Heresy-(noun) an opinion or doctrine,** especially of a church or religious system.
 * 1) ** Palpable-(adj)- readily seen, capable of being touched or fely. The tension between the two cagefighters was palpable. **
 * 2) ** Pernicious ** (adj) causing harm or ruin; deadly; fatal; injurious; hurtful (ex) //The __pernicious__ disease in the movie, "Contagion," caused millions of people to die.//
 * 3) ** Satiate-(verb)- to supply with anything to excess, to satisfy to the fullest. I satiated my hungeer by eating 107 hot pockets. **
 * 4) ** Absolve: (Verb) to set or declare someone free from blame, guilt, or responsibility ** The judged absolved the teenagers from their charges.
 * 5) **Caricature(noun)-A drawing or representation of something in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect** Ex.) The caricature of me that i got at the carnival had a really big head and large eyebrows.
 * 6) ** Contiguous-(adj)- touching ; in contact, close in proximity. The two bears noses were contiguous before thay fought. **
 * 7) ** Enthrall (verb): to captivate or charm **
 * 1) Extenuate (verb)- 1. ** to represent (a fault,offense, etc.) as less serious 2. to und erestimate, underrate **
 * Ostentatious-(adj)- intended to attract notice. The neighbors used ostentatious lights to make the neighbors angry. **
 * 1) Prosaic: adjective 1.commonplace or dull;matter-of-factorun imaginative:a prosaic mind. 2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. S1: Since she came from a small Midwestern town they all thought she led a very prosaic life. S2: Her prosaic letters did not leave much to the imagination.
 * 2) ** Sanctimonious-(adj)- making a hypocritical show of devotion. Nobody appreciated the politician's sanctimonious comments. **
 * 3) ** Scintillating (adj., part.): sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities). **

Units 9 & 10 Vocabulary - Quiz: Thursday, December 23 > The kind of adulation and scrutiny he received made that conversation awkward for me.
 * 1) **Adulation** : (noun ) excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
 * 1) ** Astute: ** (adj) clever; cunning; shrewed
 * We are now keen to recruit commercially **astute** sales advisors to join our existing team.
 * 1) Avarice: noun: Extreme greed for wealth or material gain, ex) The president's two brand new beach house in Hawaii was a perfect representation of his avarice.
 * 2) ** Culpable (adj) deserving blame The man in the mask was clearly a culpable suspect for the crime. **


 * 1)  __**Egregious**__- ADJ. extrodinary in some bad way;glaring ; flagrant--- The socks-and-sandal combo is perhaps the most egregious fashion faux pas.
 * 2) ** Equivocate- ** (Verb): to use ambiguous language as to avoid the truth or avoid committing oneself. //It is possible that when a politician is questioned on a topic they are not prepared for, they they play it safe by equivocating.//
 * 3) **Irresolute**- (adj) not resolute, not determined; doubtful. The irresolute woman hesitated between which ice cream she wanted to order.
 * 4) ** Novice (n) **
 * A person new to or inexperienced in a field or situation:
 * He was a complete novice in foreign affairs.
 * 1) ** Pretentious (adj) **  fu ll of pretense or pretension.

> characterized by assumption of dignity or importance

The //pretentious// women continued to judge those who thought were littler than them. > -Accumulate or recieve (such as payments or benefits; be recieved by someone in regular or increasing amounts over time (of sums of money or benefits. //The employee finally managed to accrue enough vacation days to go on a cruise to the bahamas.//
 * 1) ====** Recapitulate- (verb) to repeat in concise form, to summarize. The boy recapitulated what he did over vacation to his friend on the first day of school. **====
 * 2) ** Resuscitate: ** (verb) to revive someone from unconsciousness or apparent death. The doctor resuscitated the car crash victim and was able to bring her back to life after she was declared dead.
 * 3) ** Accrue-verb **
 * 1) ** Covert: adjective:secret noun; giving shelter to animals. **
 * I spared a covert glance at the cute guy sitting across from me**

14. Debonair**(adjective): courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm //He seemed so sincere and so//** //debonair**, nobody ever guessed that he was secretly a cruel and vicious man**// 15.**Efficacious (Adj)-** capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, [|remedy]. The  medicine is efficacious in stopping a [|cough].
 * //All of the men looked quite//** //debonair **in their tuxedos.**//

16. Gist ** (noun): the main or essential part of a matter; the point. //The gist of the wiki is to keep us on track and up to date.// ** The gratuitous couch was found at the end of a driveway with a free sign on it, the new owners were very pleased with their findings. 19. Provocative (adj):
 * 17Fortuitous: (adj) happening or produced by chance; accidental, lucky, fortunate When they were at the cold game it was //fortuitous// that their friend had extra hand warmers.**
 * 18. Gratuitous (adj): given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge, or a means of payment; free.**
 * tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arouaisng desire or appetite. **
 * // The provocative images were banned by the government. //**
 * // Lyrics to many rap songs are considered too provocative for young listeners. //**

20.Sedentary (adj): ** characterized by or calling for continued sitting, remaining in one place // After the surgery, the man's doctors orderd him to remain sedentary for two weeks. // // He requested a move to the burger shack after experiencing ennui as a sedentary lifeguard. //

**Units 7 & 8 - ACC/ Quiz: Friday, December 2**
**1. Austere** (adj) severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: An austere teacher will not allow talking during his/her class.

**2. Concoct** **(Verb) 1.** To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking. **2.** To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive

She managed to concoct a sentence using the required word.

**3. Crass:**Adjective:Lacking sensitivity or due consideration Often the crass teenagers will crack racial jokes.

**4. Desecrate (v): to commit sacrilege upon; treat irrevently; to contaminate - especially to do these things to something/someone people hold sacred.** //To the dismay of New Englanders, the crowd of Yankees fans desecrated Fenway Park with spray paint.//

**5. Inconsequential (adj): trifling, unimportant** // Because I only played one slot machine, I only lost an inconsequential amount of money at Foxwoods. //

**6. Infraction** **(noun)-** a violation; an infringement //The player committed// a neutral zone infraction and was penalized 5 yards.

**7. Mitigate-** **(verb)**

//After her tenant moved out without notice, the owner ran an ad in a paper for a new tenant so as to mitigate her damages of lost rent//
**8. Pillage (V)** To rob (a place) especially during wartime

The rebels pillaged the village of all of their precious resources

**9. Restitution** (noun) 1: reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused //You owe me a restitution for breaking my mailbox!!!!!!!1// **10. Vulnerable (adjective):** susceptible to physical punishment or attack. //The army was very vulnerable out in the open space.//

**11. Consternation (noun): a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay** //**The fire alarm was so shocking it caused consternation and nobody knew what to do.**//

**12. Corpulent** **adj. large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.** The corpulent piglet was given a membership to the gym for his birthday. My corpulent dog eats so much food so I struggle carrying him up the stairs. **13. Disavow** verb to disclaim knowledge of,connection with,or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him. **14. Dispassionate: (adjective)** free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm While individual moments are unbearably poignant, others seem oddly **dispassionate**. I am afraid that i cannot be so **dispassionate** at the moment.

**15. Dissension - noun** ** 1.) strong disagreement;a contention or quarrel;discord.** **2.) difference insentiment or opinion;disagreement**

The members who chose him cited the tension and dissension he was causing.

**16. Gauntlet** (noun) 1. a medieval glove 2. a great challenge

(noun): a hypothetical situation, instance
= The judge refussed to talk about //hypotheticals// with the defendants. =

**18. Relegate** (v): To send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition. The man relegated to a small hut in the woods from his gigantic mansion on the beach. The employee was relegated from his job at the cashier, to the garbage boy.

**19. Subservient (adj.):** subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient Emerson and Thoreau urge their followers to avoid subservience and conformity; be your own person! Because my dog is subservient, I am able to let him off his leash.

**20. Susceptible (adj.) :** open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance His poor diet and sleep made him susceptible to sickness. The Patriots have many injured defensive players and so are susceptible to the attacks of the opponent's quarterback.

**Units 5 & 6 - ACC/ Quiz: Friday, November 4**
1. **Amnesty:** (noun) a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses against a government. //The recoding industry plans to announce an amnesty for people who admit to music files sharing and promise to stop.//

2. **Autonomy:** (noun) self-government //America gained its autonomy after winning the war against England.//

3. Axiomatic: (adj)

//It is axiomatic that Sarah would be at her best friend's birthday party.//
4. Caveat: (noun) a warning or caution; admonition - WARNING

They sold the cabin to the young couple with the caveat that the roof would need repairs before winter.

5. Equitable (adj.): fair, just, embodying principles of justice. //I had to do an equitable amount of laundry in order to make up for all the delicious meals my wife cooked.//

6. __Precept__: ( Noun ) - a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct //The precept given to us by Mr. Collins tells us to fill in our vocab words before the quiz, or it's curtains.//

7. **Scathing**: (adjective) bitterly severe, as a remark. harmful, or searing.

//Before i get scathing, let's try and be positive.//
//I was going to see Transmuters 3 until I read the scathing review in the Globe.//

8. Transient (adj): lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who only stays a short time.

//If you don't believe that fame can be __transient__, just ask four of the members of N'Sync.// //Because my younger nieces and nephews do not have a firm grasp on difficult high school vocabulary words, my family simply refers to Uncle Bob as a hobo instead of using the more euphemistic term __transient__.//

2. difficult to manage: too complex or extensive to be manageable

10. Vapid (adj): dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force MHS Drama Club's Dracula was anything but vapid; Mr. Chirstie is a scholar and a gentleman. I was not fooled by the expensive special affects and found //Transmuters// to be an entirely vapid movie.

//11. **Anomaly:** (noun) a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form// //The woman who lived twenty years after her doctor gave her a two year life expectancy was quite an anomaly.//

12. **Brusque:** adj. abrupt or offhand in speech or manner. in a blunt direct manner. When the waiter got the order wrong the brusque customer yelled at him and complained to the manager. The teacher brusquely told me i was failing the class and there was nothing i could do about it. 13. **Contrive:** (verb) to plan with ingenuity; divise; invent Apple seems to contrive new ideas every few months to make the IPhone improve.

14. **Demagogue (noun):**a leader who makes use of popular and false claims and promises in order to gain power //His opponent called him a bigoted demagogue.//

//In order to get her vote, the demagogue promised Nina Collins, age 3, she would get to watch Caillou all day.//

15. Ennui - Noun

**a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satietyor lack of interest; ** **boredom.**

//The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui. //

16. Immutable: (adj) unchangeable, unalterable The grade she got on the test was immutable, she could not retake it.

17. **Insurgent**:(noun) a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution or its laws; rebel. //The **insurgent** that belonged to the Taliban was the one that planted the bomb.// (adj) of or characteristic or an insurgent or insurgents, surging or rushing. //During hurricane Irene, the **insurgent** waves bashed the shore.//

18. Surreptitious:(adj) obtained, done, made etc., by stealth. The cop gave a surreptitious glance over his shoulder, spotting the robber close by. The surreptitious chipmunk ran all around in the gardens eating all the plants, and was never spotted.

19. Transgress (v): to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law //After Frankenstein transgressed onto his neighbor's lawn he was chased away by a pitchfork and torch waving mob.// //John Proctor's transgressions got him in hot water with his wife.//

20. Transmute (v): to change from one nature, substance, or form to another //I went to see the movie// Transmuters //and was excited to see the robots transmute into cars.//

**Units 3 & 4 - ACC/ Quiz: Tuesday, October 11**

1) **Abominate** (verb): to dislike strongly I abominate cold weather.

2) **Acculturation** (noun): the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group. The foreign exchange student's acculturation to American traditions took many weeks.

3)**Adventitious**(adjective)**.** added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly //Bob's rude attitude in school was adventitious, he was simply having a bad day.//  //The typo in the newspaper was adventitious, especially since a English professor from Harvard wrote it.//

4) Circuitous (adj) : indirect and lengthy ; roundabout

//The circuitous route continued to wind around for what seemed like hours.//

5) **Commiserate:** (VERB)   to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for ; empathize with; pity.

6) **Expedite:** (used with object) <span style="color: #003eff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(VERB) - 1.To speed up the progress of; to hasten . 2. To accomplish promptly, as a means of business.   //If the delivery of mail were to be expedited, communication by the means of mail would become more efficient.//  //It is frowned upon to expedite the production of a new invention without first testing its safety.//

7) **Inadvertent:** (adj)- unintentional, not attentive. //It was the inadvertent slip of the tongue that got the student in serious trouble with the teacher.//

8) **Nominal (** Adj .) being such in name only; so-called; of almost no value  //The rent John had to pay was nominal, consisting of only a few dollars.//

9) **Proclivity/Propensity** (noun) a natural inclination or tendency to behave in a certain way, often objectionable or immoral.
//I have a huge proclivity for laziness and I'm trying to overcome it.//

11) **Tenuous** (adj.): very weak or slight; insubstantial
//The tenuous army had no chance to gain any ground against the other country's army that was tripled their size.// //The error correction was so tenuous that the teacher did not even bother to fix her mistake.//

//There were a lot of vitriolic criticism geared toward my hard worked on essay and it hurt my feelings deeply.//
13) Affable:(adjective) pleasantly easy to approach and tot alk to;friendly;cordial; warmly polite

There is also an outstanding campus culture; folks tend to be **affable**, hard-working,and very sharp.

**14) Aggrandize:** (verb) to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">//John D. Rockefeller worked to aggrandize his empire by purchasing oil wells, refineries, and pipelines.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">//King George tried to aggrandize his lands by claiming more land in the New World.//

15) Infer : (Verb)

1. to derive by reasoning;conclude or judge from premises or evidence 2. to guess or speculate

They inferred his displeasure from his angry tone of voice.

16) **Insular** (adj): Of or pertaining to an island. Detached, standing alone, or isolated.  //Those who rarely leave their house or communicate with others have a very insular lifestyle//

**17) Irrevocable** (adj): not to be revoked or recalled: unable to be repealed or annulled The baseball game is //irrevocable// because the seniors are all graduating the next day.  The homework was //irrevocable// since it was leading to the essay due next week.

18) **Querulous (adj):** full of complaints.  //T////h////e querulous couple complained about every date they went on.//  //The querulous siblings complained about who got the front seat of the car.//

**19) Repudiate** (verb): to disown, reject, deny the validity of In order to stop the protest, the newspaper repudiated the comments made by one of their rebellious journalists.  My embarrassed father tried to repudiate our relationship after I was caught stealing toilet paper from Wal-Mart.

**20) Sedulous** (adj.): persistent, showing industry and determination The sedulous little train thought he could, thought he could, thought he could.  The sedulous Vermont town worked night and day to clean up after Hurricane Irene.

**Units 1 & 2** **1) Assuage** (v): to make milder or less severe; to appease; to sooth  //By doing the things he enjoyed, he helped assuage his anger.//  2) **Decadence** (noun): unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence. //On Valentine's Day my decadence for chocolate is unhealthy.// 3) Elicit (verb): to bring forth, or draw out. //The horror film elicited fear in the audience.//  //The witty comment elicited laughter in the class.//  4) **Innuendo** (noun) : in indirect complication, a hint //Asking someone if they need a breath mint is an innuendo that the person has bad breath.// 5) **Intercede:** (verb):1. to attempt to reconcile differences between two people or groups;mediate. The boy and his father tried to intercede their differences. After the student and teachers fight they tried to intercede what really happend. 6) **Jaded:** (adjective): dulled or satiated by overindulgence; worn out or wearied. as by overwork or overuse. //The jaded boy no longer found excitement in watching TV, for he is so used to a big screen rather than his uncles black-and-white one.// //What once was an enjoyable vacation became a jaded event after traveling to the Bahamas 10 years in a row.// 7) **Lurid:** (adjective) gruesome; horrible; revolting.  //The details of the tragic accident were lurid.//  __ Prerogative __   1. (N)  an exclusive right, privilege, etc.,exercised by virtue of rank, or office

I wanted to yell at the principal, but he has the __prerogative__ to suspend me. It is my prerogative to to make a choice on what i want to do. 9) **Provincial**   (adjective): 1. of or relating to province  2. of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated:  //"'That provincial woman is ruining my party!' said Mrs. Butternut"//   (noun): 1. native or inhabitant of the provinces  10) **Transcend** (verb): To pass beyond the limits of. To be greater than, as in intensity or power; surpass. To exist above and independent of (material experience or the universe) //Michael Jordan transcended above all other basketball players.// 11) **Aplomb** (noun): complete and confident composer or self-assurance; poise.  //On the first day of school, the teachers spoke with great aplomb about the new strict rules.//  //The underdogs needed aplomb to help their chances of winning.//  12) **Bombastic** (adj) (of speech, writing, etc.) pretentious, high-sounding, inflated, ostentatious. //The student wrote a very bombastic essay to show off his sophistication on the subject.// //The man bombastically explained his trip to the doctor's when really a few quick sentences would have sufficed.// 13) Callow: adjective (esp. of a young person) Inexperienced and immature " Anyway, comments about my**callow** youthfulnes sormy"babbling" are more entertaining than anything else.  noun: a recently hatched worker any  **14) Epitome**  (noun): a person or thing that is typically of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; a condensed account, especially of a literary work, abstract  //He was the epitome of a good boss, always kind and in control.//  //"To Kill a Mockingbird"is the epitome of 20th century lierature.//  15) **Exhort-**  (verb): <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently .  //New seat belt laws are passed to exhort the use of seat belts in vehicles to keep people safe.//  16) **Infringe**  (verb): to trespass or violate  //The student infringed upon the rules and was sent to the office.//  17) **Ingratiate** (verb): to gain favorable acceptance for deliberate effort She //ingratiated// herself with her boss by staying late every night. The player //ingratiated// himself by bringing his coach cookies. **18) Intrinsic**- (adj): belonging to a thing by its very nature, belonging to or lying within a given part.  //The intrinsic value of the emerald necklace was very expensive.//  //The intrinsic craftsmanship on the park bench was amazing.//  **19) Stringent** (adj): strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste //Some argue that more stringent laws against speeding will make our streets safer.// //The stringent taste of the fruit stayed with me for hours.//

**20) Surmise** (v) to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess (n) likely idea that lacks definite proof  //I could not be sure, but I surmised that my father would be disappointed with my decision to drop out of college.//  //The police had nothing to go on but a mere surmise.//