Name: ___________________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _____________________
Vocabulary List #1
Honors English
Instructions: 1) Define each word in terms you understand. Do not merely copy a complicated dictionary definition. Single
synonyms or short informal phrases are fine providing you know what they mean. 2) List related forms of the word – with
their parts of speech – and/or identifiable “word cells” within the word. 3) Write a sentence containing the word or one of
its forms that illustrates you actually know what the word means and how it should be used in a sentence.
abash (v.): _____to embarrass or shame________ Related Words: abashed (adj.), abashedly (adv.), unabashedly (adv.)
Sentence: Despite the incriminating crumbs falling from his mouth, Mark unabashedly denied stealing the cookies._____
abominate (v.): ____________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
accost (v.): ________________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
acrimonious (adj.): ________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
adamant (adj.): ____________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
adapt (v.): ________________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
adhere (v.): _______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
admonish (v.): _____________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
advocate (v./n.): ___________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
aghast (adj.): ______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
Vocabulary List #1, continued
agitate (v.): _______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
allege (v.): ________________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
aloof (adj.): _______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
altercation (n.): ___________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
altruism (n.): ______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
amble (v.): ________________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
ambulatory (adj.): _________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
amenable (adj.): ___________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
anarchy (n.): ______________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
animated (adj.): ___________________________ Related Words: ___________________________________
Sentence: _________________________________________________________________________________
Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say,
not at all peculiar to him. I have observed it, in the course of my life, in numbers of men. It seems to me to be a general rule. In the
taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession,
for the expression of one idea; as, that that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made
relishing on the same principle. We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a
large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are
not particular about the meaning of our liveries, on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning and
necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by
making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their master, so I think I could mention a
nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.
from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens