Junior Vocabulary

Week 1

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1. Abound (v) – to exist in great number
2. Annals (n) – historical records
3. Automaton (n) – a machine that behaves like a person
4. Badger (v) – to nag continually
5. Compound (v) – to add to
6. Drudgery (n) – dull, difficult work
7. Eminent (adj) – of great reputation
8. Implore (v) – to beg
9. Indiscriminate (adj) – carelessly chosen
10. Interminable (adj) - unending
11. Matron (n) – a mature woman
12. Paradox (n) – a seemingly self contradictory situation
13. Perceive (v) – to come to an understanding of
14. Prognosticate (v) – to foretell
15. Realm (n) – a specific field or kingdom
16. Replete (adj) – filled with
17. Steeped (adj) – saturated/soaked in something
18. Technology (n) – related to science of engineering
19. Tinge (n) – a small amount
20. Voracious (adj) – desiring a huge amount

Week 2

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1. Accost (v) – to approach and speak to
2. Adroit (adj) - clever
3. Avid (adj) - enthusiastic
4. Cajole (v) – to coax; wheedle
5. Enhance (v) – to make greater
6. Fabricate (v) – to create a lie
7. Felon (n) – a criminal
8. Furtive (adj) - sly
9. Gesticulate (v) – to use lively gestures
10. Hapless (adj) – unlucky
11. Intrepid (adj) - courageous
12. Irate (adj) - angry
13. Laconic (adj) – concise; pithy
14. Nuance (n) – a shade of difference
15. Plethora (n) – a great amount of
16. Pretext (n) – an excuse
17. Reticent (adj) - uncommunicative
18. Rudimentary (adj) – basic; elementary
19. Throng (n) – great number of people
20. Vigilant (adj) – alert

Week 3

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1. Bristle (v) – to have hair stand up
2. Caustic (adj) – stinging; biting
3. Cessation (n) – a pause
4. Condolence (n) – expression of sympathy
5. Dupe (n/v) – an easily fooled person/to fool
6. Euphemism (n) – an indirect expression
7. Inadvertent (adj) – due to an oversight; negligent, accidental
8. Incipient (adj) – just starting
9. Incongruous (adj) – having inconsistent elements
10. Infamous (adj) - evil
11. Jostle (v) – to push
12. Lackluster (adj) – lacking brightness
13. Loathe (v) – to hate
14. Mundane (adj) – earthly, common, dull, ordinary
15. Ominous (adj) – menacing; threatening
16. Reprimand (v) – to scold severely
17. Repudiate (v) – to refuse to accept; disown
18. Stipulate (v) – to make a specific demand
19. Tremulous (adj) - trembling
20. Wrest (v) – to seize

Week 4

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1. Alacrity (adj) – quick willingness; eagerness
2. Aspirant (n) – candidate for a better job
3. Belligerent (adj) – hostile; seeking war
4. Belittle (v) – to speak of as unimportant
5. Brash (adj) – insolent; rude
6. Castigate (v) – to punish; chastise
7. Disdain (n) - scorn
8. Dregs (n) – the most worthless part
9. Feint (n) – a pretense; sham
10. Frenzy (n) – a frantic outburst
11. Intimidate (v) – to make afraid
12. Laceration (n) – a rough cut
13. Octogenarian (n) – a person in their eighties
14. Promulgate (v) – to proclaim; make public
15. Pugnacious (adj) – quarrelsome; combative
16. Scoff (v) – to mock
17. Scurrilous (adj) – vulgar, indecent language
18. Solace (n) - comfort
19. Sordid (adj) – filthy; ignoble
20. Tangible (adj) – able to be touched

Week 5

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1. Acrimonious (adj) – caustic; bitter
2. Admonish (v) – to scold/warn
3. Clandestine (adj) – hidden/secret
4. Concur (v) – to agree
5. Construe (v) – to interpret
6. Culprit (n) – one who commits a crime
7. Distraught (adj) – upset; confused; agitated
8. Duplicity (n) – double dealing; deceit
9. Duress (n) – stress; force; coercion
10. Egregious (adj) – remarkably bad
11. Elicit (v) – to draw out; extract
12. Ethics (n) – moral philosophy
13. Flagrant (adj) – obvious; blatantly wrong
14. Impunity (n) - exemption
15. Inane (adj) - silly
16. Inexorable (adj) – inflexible; unmoved by persuasion
17. Paucity (n) – a lack of; shortage
18. Pernicious (adj) – damaging; harmful
19. Rampant (adj) – widespread; flourishing
20. Tolerate (v) – to permit

Review Weeks 1-5

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Week 1:

Abound
Automaton
Compound
Implore
Indiscriminate
Interminable
Perceive
Realm
Tinge
Voracious

Week 2:

Accost
Avid
Enhance
Hapless
Intrepid
Irate
Laconic
Plethora
Pretext
Vigilant

Week 3:

Condolence
Dupe
Euphemism
Inadvertent
Infamous
Lackluster
Loathe
Mundane
Stipulate
Tremulous

Week 4:

Aspirant
Belittle
Brash
Castigate
Frenzy
Laceration
Promulgate
Pugnacious
Scurrilous
Sordid

Week 5:

Acrimonious
Admonish
Clandestine
Duplicity
Duress
Elicit
Inane
Paucity
Pernicious
Rampant

Week 6 Words

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1. Affluent (adj) – wealthy
2. Chagrin (n) – dismay, dread
3. Confidant(e) (n) – a person you tell your secrets to
4. Consternation (n) - disappointment
5. Deride (v) – to make fun of
6. Discern (v) – to recognize
7. Disparage (v) – to discredit
8. Dubious (adj) - uncertain
9. Eschew (v) – to avoid
10. Feasible (adj) – possible, practicable
11. Fiasco (n) – complete failure
12. Laudable (adj) - commendable
13. Masticate (v) – to chew
14. Obsolescence (n) – process of wearing out
15. Perfunctory (adj) - careless
16. Perverse (adj) – contrary; wicked
17. Precocious (adj) – reaching maturity early
18. Quell (v) – to stop
19. Sally (n/v) – a sudden rushing forth/to rush forth
20. Voluble (adj) - talkative

Week 7 Words

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1. Arbitrary (adj) – based on a whim
2. Cognizant (adj) - aware
3. Effigy (n) – a likeness
4. Exacerbate (v) – to irritate
5. Flout (n) – to show contempt
6. Forthwith (adv) - immediately
7. Fray (n) – a conflict/fight
8. Harass (v) – to torment
9. Implacable (adj) – unappeasable, relentless
10. Indigent (adj) - poor
11. Jurisdiction (n) – range of authority
12. Monolithic (adj) – having a massive structure
13. Oust (v) – to eject
14. Paroxysm (n) – an outburst
15. Reprehensible (adj) – blameworthy, culpable
16. Revert (v) – to go back
17. Skirmish (n) – a small battle
18. Stymie (v) – to hinder
19. Terminate (v) – to end
20. Turbulent (adj) - riotous

Week 8 Words

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1. Afflict (v) – to trouble greatly
2. Ascend (v) – to rise
3. Besiege (v) – to surround
4. Emaciated (adj) – wasted away, thin
5. Excruciating (adj) - agonizing
6. Fretful (adj) - worrisome
7. Harbinger (n) – forerunner, omen
8. Malignant (adj) – becoming worse, malevolent
9. Malnutrition (n) – bad/inadequate diet
10. Privation (n) – lack of necessities, deprivation
11. Remote (adj) - distant
12. Respite (n) – rest/relief or postponement/reprieve
13. Reverberating (adj) - reechoing
14. Sanctuary (n) – a place of protection
15. Sinister (adj) – evil
16. Succumb (v) – to yield
17. Surge (v) – to rush suddenly
18. Thwart (v) – to hinder, stymie
19. Tranquil (adj) - peaceful
20. Ubiquitous (adj) – everywhere at once

Week 9 Words

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1. Adverse (adj) - unfavorable
2. Advocate (v) – to support
3. Amicable (adj) - friendly
4. Asset (n) – something of value
5. Astute (adj) – keen, shrewd
6. Bigot (n) – a prejudiced person
7. Blatant (adj) – obvious/showy or loud
8. Entourage (n) – a group of followers
9. Extortion (n) – getting money by threats
10. Impresario (n) – an organizer
11. Ineffectual (adj) – not effective
12. Loath (adj) – reluctant, unwilling
13. Malady (n) – a disease
14. Nefarious (adj) – villainous, reprehensible
15. Scrutinize (v) – to examine closely
16. Solicit (v) – to seek earnestly, importune
17. Spew (v) – to vomit, emit
18. Venom (n) - poison
19. Vexatious (adj) - annoying
20. Virulent (adj) - harmful

Week 10 Words

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1. Desist (v) – to cease
2. Doleful (adj) - sad
3. Elusive (adj) – hard to grasp, intangible
4. Engrossed (adj) - absorbed
5. Frustrate (v) – to thwart, hinder, stymie
6. Histrionics (n) – a display of emotions
7. Imminent (adj) – about to happen
8. Inclement (adj) – harsh, stormy
9. Inert (adj) – powerless to move
10. Interject (v) – to interrupt
11. Mastiff (n) – a large dog
12. Obsess (v) – to preoccupy, fixate
13. Pertinent (adj) - appropriate
14. Peruse (v) – to read carefully
15. Premonition (n) - forewarning
16. Recoil (v) – to draw back
17. Salient (adj) – outstanding, prominent, most important
18. Squeamish (adj) – easily shocked
19. Symptomatic (adj) – indicative
20. Wan (adj) - pale

Review Weeks 6-10

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Week 6:

Affluent
Chagrin
Consternation
Discern
Dubious
Eschew
Feasible
Fiasco
Masticate
Quell

Week 7:

Arbitrary
Cognizant
Exacerbate
Flout
Forthwith
Fray
Harassment
Implacable
Indigent
Terminate

Week 8:

Affliction
Besiege
Emaciated
Excruciating
Malignant
Malnutrition
Remote
Sanctuary
Sinister
Ubiquitous

Week 9:

Adverse
Asset
Entourage
Impresario
Ineffectual
Loath
Malady
Scrutinize
Solicit
Vexatious

Week 10:

Desist
Elusive
Engrossed
Imminent
Inclement
Obsessed
Pertinent
Recoil
Symptomatic
Wan

Week 11 Words

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1. Coerce (v) – to force, persuade
2. Comprehensive (adj) - thorough
3. Conjecture (n) – a guess
4. Corroborate (v) – to confirm
5. Domicile (n) - home
6. Elapse (v) – to pass by (as in time)
7. Fruitless (adj) - useless
8. Garbled (adj) – confused, mixed up
9. Inundate (v) – to flood, swamp
10. Lax (adj) - careless
11. Lurid (adj) – sensational, shocking
12. Meticulous (adj) - careful
13. Obviate (v) – to do away with, to avert
14. Phlegmatic (adj) – calm, sluggish
15. Poignant (adj) – emotionally moving
16. Quip (n/v) – to joke/a joke
17. Rash (adj) - reckless
18. Sanguine (adj) – hopeful, cheerful
19. Sporadic (adj) – occasional
20. Zealous (adj) enthusiastic, avid

Week 12 Words

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1. Anathema (n) – a curse, abomination
2. Diatribe (n) – bitter criticism
3. Expunge (v) – to erase
4. Flamboyant (adj) - colorful
5. Fortuitous (adj) - accidental
6. Fractious (adj) - quarrelsome
7. Ilk (n) – kind, sort
8. Incoherent (adj) - disjointed
9. Inhibition (n) - restraint
10. Integral (adj) - essential
11. Jaunty (adj) – sprightly, lively
12. Nominal (adj) – in name only, slight
13. Ostentatious (adj) - showy
14. Placard (n) – a poster
15. Prestigious (adj) – well-known
16. Remuneration (n) – reward
17. Schism (n) – a split
18. Timorous (adj) - fearful
19. Truncated (adj) – cut short (as in time)
20. Utopia (n) – a place of perfection

Week 13 Words

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1. Cryptic (adj) - puzzling
2. Curtail (v) – to cut short, truncate
3. Emit (v) – to give off
4. Eventuate (v) – to result in finally
5. Haven (n) – a place of safety, sanctuary
6. Importune (v) – to ask urgently for
7. Inchoate (adj) – in an early stage
8. Incontrovertible (adj) - undeniable
9. Incredulous (adj) - skeptical
10. Jeopardize (v) – to endanger
11. Permeate (v) – to spread through
12. Premise (n) – a proposition for argument
13. Propitious (adj) - favorable
14. Repress (v) – to stifle, put down
15. Subjugate (v) – to conquer
16. Subterranean (adj) - underground
17. Surmise (v) – to guess
18. Surreptitious (adj) – furtive, clandestine
19. Ultimate (adj) - final
20. Viable (adj) - workable

Week 14 Words

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1. Aspire (v) – to strive for
2. Bias (n) – prejudice
3. Havoc (n) - ruin
4. Incisive (adj) – keen, acute
5. Inveigh (v) – to attack verbally
6. Lethal (adj) - deadly
7. Mammoth (adj) - huge
8. Nettle (v) – to annoy, exacerbate
9. Overt (adj) – evident, blatant, obvious
10. Precipitate (v) – to hasten, trigger
11. Raze (v) – to destroy
12. Relegate (v) – to demote
13. Repulse (v) – to drive back
14. Scurry (v) – to run quickly
15. Sinecure (n) – an easy job
16. Singular (adj) – remarkable, uncommon
17. Stentorian (adj) - loud
18. Stereotype (n) – conventional custom/view
19. Supine (adj) – lying on the back
20. Valor (n) – courage

Week 15 Words

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1. Abrogate (v) – to repeal by law
2. Access (n) - admittance
3. Accomplice (n) – an associate in crime
4. Alleged (adj) – supposed, reported
5. Asperity (n) – bitterness of temper
6. Complicity (adj) – partnership in wrongdoing, collusion
7. Controversial (adj) - debatable
8. Culpable (adj) – worthy of blame
9. Declaim (v) – to speak loudly
10. Epithet (n) – a descriptive name (Honest Abe)
11. Extrinsic (adj) – coming from outside, foreign
12. Fetter (v) – to chain, bind
13. Invalidate (v) – to deprive of legal force, cancel
14. Landmark (adj) - historic
15. Liquidation (n) – destruction, disposal of
16. Nomadic (adj) - wandering
17. Paragon (n) – model of excellence
18. Persevere (v) – to persist
19. Preclude (v) – to prevent
20. Recant (v) – to renounce previous statements

Review Weeks 11-15

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Week 11:

Comprehensive
Domicile
Inundate
Lax
Lurid
Phlegmatic
Poignant
Rash
Sporadically
Zealous

Week 12:

Anathema
Diatribe
Fortuitous
Integral
Ostentatious
Placard
Prestigious
Remuneration
Timorous
Utopia

Week 13:

Cryptic
Curtail
Eventuate
Importune
Incontrovertible
Jeopardy
Subterranean
Surreptitious
Ultimate
Viable

Week 14:

Aspire
Havoc
Mammoth
Raze
Relegate
Sinecure
Singular
Stereotype
Supine
Valor

Week 15:

Access
Accomplice
Alleged
Complicity
Culpable
Invalidate
Landmark
Nomadic
Paragon
Preclude

Week 16 Words

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1. Altruistic (adj) - unselfish
2. Amorous (adj) – full of love
3. Antithesis (n) – exact opposite
4. Bulwark (n) - protection
5. Cache (n) – a secret hiding place
6. Coterie (n) – a small, exclusive group
7. Cupidity (n) - greed
8. Cursory (adj) – not thorough, hasty
9. Embellish (v) – to adorn
10. Frugal (adj) - thrifty
11. Gregarious (adj) – social, enjoying the company of others
12. Habitat (n) – natural environment
13. Indigenous (adj) - native
14. Interloper (n) – an unauthorized person
15. Progeny (n) - descendants
16. Prolific (adj) – fertile, productive
17. Saturate (v) – to fill up completely
18. Sedentary (adj) – largely inactive
19. Temerity (n) – foolish boldness, audacity
20. Virtuosity (n) – great technical skill

Week 17 Words

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1. Assiduous (adj) – busy, attentive
2. Attest (v) – to vouch for
3. Component (n) – an element, part
4. Concoct (v) – to devise
5. Consummate (adj/n) – to perfect, complete
6. Deploy (v) – to spread out in battle formation
7. Enigma (n) – a puzzle, riddle
8. Evaluate (v) – to find the value of, review
9. Exult (v) – to rejoice greatly
10. Fallacious (adj) – false
11. Fraught (adj) - filled
12. Gullible (adj) – easily fooled
13. Hoax (n) – a trick
14. Impeccable (adj) - faultless
15. Labyrinth (n) – a maze
16. Manifold (adj) - many
17. Murky (adj) – dark, obscure
18. Perpetrate (v) – to commit (as in crime)
19. Resourceful (adj) – able to meet any situation
20. Subterfuge (n) – deception, artifice

Week 18 Words

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1. Abortive (adj) – fruitless, failing
2. Accommodate (v) – to make fit, adjust to
3. Barometer (n) – instrument to measure change
4. Buff (n) – a fan, enthusiast
5. Conjugal (adj) – relating to marriage
6. Crave (v) – to desire, yen for
7. Deem (v) – to judge
8. Inherent (adj) – natural, intrinsic
9. Innate (adj) – inborn, inherent
10. Irrelevant (adj) – not related to the subject
11. Itinerant (adj) – going from place to place
12. Latent (adj) – lying hidden
13. Modify (v) – to change
14. Myriad (n) – countless number, a multitude
15. Peregrination (n) - travel
16. Romp (v) – move in a lively manner
17. Spontaneous (adj) – sudden, spur of the moment
18. Tortuous (adj) - winding
19. Urbane (adj) – polished, civilized, sophisticated
20. Veneer (n) – thin covering

Week 19 Words

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1. Amnesty (n) – a general pardon
2. Balk (v) – to refuse to budge
3. Blunt (adj) – plain spoken
4. Coup (n) – revolution, overthrow
5. Dismantle (v) – to take apart, disassemble
6. Exonerate (v) – to free from guilt
7. Expatriate (n) – an exile
8. Fiat (n) – an official order, decree
9. Legion (n) – a large number
10. Mendacious (adj) – false, lying
11. Megalomania (n) – abnormal desire for power
12. Nostalgia (n) – yearning for the past
13. Parsimonious (adj) - miserly
14. Pecuniary (adj) – relating to money, financial
15. Profligate (v) - wasteful
16. Restrictive (adj) – harsh, confining
17. Rife (adj) - widespread
18. Strife (n) – unrest, discord
19. Sumptuous (adj) – lavish, extravagant
20. Underwrite (adj) – agree to finance

Week 20 Words

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1. Abstemious (adj) – moderate in eating or drinking
2. Derogatory (adj) – expressing a low opinion
3. Disparate (adj) - different
4. Edifice (n) – a building
5. Extant (adj) – still existing
6. Indict (v) – to accuse
7. Levity (n) – humor, lightness of disposition
8. Lugubrious (adj) – very sad
9. Maudlin (adj) - sentimental
10. Nebulous (adj) – vague, not clear
11. Omnivorous (adj) – eating any kind of food
12. Pesky (adj) - annoying
13. Puissant (adj) - powerful
14. Redolent (adj) - fragrant
15. Repose (n) – rest, calm
16. Reviled (adj) – scolded or hated
17. Sultry (adj) – torrid, sweltering
18. Trenchant (adj) – keen, sharp, biting
19. Unabated (adj) – without subsiding
20. Vicissitudes (npl) - difficulties

Review Weeks 16-20

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Week 16:

Antithesis
Bulwark
Cache
Coterie
Frugal
Habitat
Indigenous
Prolific
Sedentary
Virtuosity

Week 17:

Concoct
Consummate
Deploy
Evaluate
Exult
Fraught
Gullible
Manifold
Perpetrate
Resourceful

Week 18:

Accommodate
Buff
Crave
Deem
Innate
Itinerant
Latent
Peregrination
Spontaneous
Veneer

Week 19:

Coup
Exonerate
Legion
Mendacious
Parsimonious
Pecuniary
Restrictive
Strife
Sumptuous
Underwrite

Week 20:

Abstemious
Edifice
Extant
Maudlin
Omnivorous
Puissant
Repose
Sultry
Trenchant
Vicissitudes