VOCABULARY WORDS FOR HONORS

(All words come from Vocabulary Workshop – Level D. Each lesson includes the following exercises: completing the sentence, synonyms, antonyms, and choosing the right word. Every third lesson will have analogy exercises. Students should have flash cards for the words in each vocabulary unit. )

Unit 1: Unit 2: Unit 3: Unit 4:

Admonish Adjourn Abridge Abscond

Breach Alien Adherent Access

Brigand Comely Altercation Anarchy

Circumspect Compensate Cherubic Arduous

Commandeer Dissolute Condone Auspicious

Cumbersome Erratic Dissent Biased

Deadlock Expulsion Eminent Daunt

Debris Feint Exorcise Disentangle

Diffuse Fodder Fabricate Fated

Dilemma Fortify Irate Hoodwink

Efface Illegible Marauder Inanimate

Muddle Jeer Obesity Incinerate

Opinionated Lucrative Pauper Intrepid

Perennial Mediocre Pilfer Larceny

Predispose Proliferate Rift Pliant

Relinquish Subjugate Semblance Pompous

Salvage Sully Surmount Precipice

Spasmodic Tantalize Terminate Rectify

Spurious Terse Trite Reprieve

Unbridled Unflinching Usurp Revile

Unit 5:

Accomplice Servitude Incessant Bogus

Annihilate Slapdash Intricate Exorbitant

Arbitrary Stagnant Lucid Interim

Brazen Succumb Posthumous Inundate

Catalyst Prim Malign

Exodus Unit 6: Sardonic Meander

Facilitate Atone Superfluous Metropolis

Incorrigible Bondage Supplant Momentous

Latent Credible Taunt Obstreperous

Militant Defray Tenacious Pensive

Morose Diligent Perilous

Opaque Doleful Unit 7: Shoddy

Paramount Ghastly Adieu Sprightly

Prattle Hamper Advent Surly

Rebut Hew Apex Tirade

Reprimand Impoverished Assimilate Vagrant

Unit 8: Unit 9: Unit 10: Unit 11:

Assurance Auxiliary Adept Brevity

Asylum Candid Aspire Comport

Console Cubicle Bleak Concise

Dilate Drudgery Chide Demure

Dross Envoy Despicable Depreciation

Dwindle Escalate Diminutive Deteriorate

Flippant Expedient Emancipate Divulge

Immunity Feign Erroneous Enlightened

Institute Flair Exploit Forestall

Liability Grievous Extemporaneous Garble

Preposterous Heterogeneous Impair Proponent

Pugnacious Horde Invincible Quaver

Rabid Impel Languid Recoil

Realm Incredulous Mire Recoup

Rejuvenate Inscribe Obtrusive Reek

Remunerate Monologue Preamble Relentless

Sparse Prognosis Render Rivulet

Sterling Rasping Rugged Squander

Venture Repugnant Skeptical Staccato

Warp Scuttle Slipshod Statute

Unit 12: Unit 13: Unit 14: Unit 15:

Appreciable Ad infinitum Annex Abase

Autocratic Apportion Cleave Actuate

Blanch Bona fide Cordial Avert

Blasphemy Buoyant Cornerstone Boorish

Brawny Clique Debacle Brunt

Concerted Concede Devitalize Combatant

Contend Congenial Embroil Dormant

Humane Lofty Exonerate Dubious

Illustrious Migration Glib Harangue

Intolerable Perceive Haphazard Harry

Irreverent Perverse Improvise Impenitent

Laborious Prelude Incite Knave

Lithe Rancid Influx Legion

Maltreat Rustic Pallor Liberality

Ponder Sever Pedigree Plaintiff

Subversive Sordid Precipitous Probe

Synthetic Untenable Profuse Protract

Temperate Versatile Reconcile Quarry

Venomous Vindicate Shackle Spurn

Wily Wane Threadbare Subterfuge

*All spelling words are on page 862-863 of the grammar book. We will study the words in groups of 20.