VOCAB QUARTER 2

SUBJUGATION

• State of being submissive or subservient
• Brought under complete control
• "Education is indoctrination if you're white, subjugation if you're black."

VAMPIRES DO ACTS OF SUBJUGATION BY COMPELLING HUMAN SLAVES TO LIVE WITH THEM.

UNDULATING

• To rise and fall in pitch
• "The water undulating slightly with the waves was not spiritual."

COPIOUS

• Large number or quantity
• "Let peace scatter blessings from her copious hand."

MY FRIEND'S DAD OWNS A BANK IN WHICH THEY STORE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF CASH.

CONGENIAL

• Friendly, easy going
• "The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony."

FLIGHT ATTENDS ARE USUALLY VERY CONGENIAL PEOPLE.

FASTIDIOUSNESS

• Trait of being
• "Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous."

FASTIDIOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS MATCHED ONLY TO YOUR OWN.

FEIGN

• To give a false appearance, fake
• "I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it."

MY BROTHER AND I FEIGN HAPPINESS WHEN ASKED TO DO CHORES.

PREEMINENTLY

• Having importance; in a superior way
• "What is fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying."

THE PRESIDENT WALKS PREEMINENTLY DOWN THE STREET.

POSTERITY

• All future generations
• "What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING TO PROTECT POSTERITY.

PROGENY

• A descendant or offspring
• "When man's extinct, a better world may see your progeny in power and control."

CAIN AND ABLE WERE THE PROGENY OF ADAM AND EVE.

QUINTESSENTIAL

• The most perfect embodiment of something
• "When I look at picture when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe."

OUR TOWN'S FOOTBALL STAR WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL JOCK.

SCRUPULOUS

• With strict regard for what is right
• "A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel."

MY SCRUPULOUS NEIGHBOR GIVES US DIRTY LOOKS WHEN WE ARE LOUD.

VACILLATE

• To hesitate between choices
• "When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."

ON HARD TEST QUESTIONS, I USUALLY JUST SIT THERE AND VACILLATE.

ZEALOUS

• Ardently active, devoted, or diligent
• "Zealous men are ver displaying to you the strengths of their beliefs."

STUDENTS WHO DO MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES AND MAINTAIN GOOD GRADES ARE ZEALOUS.

DISCERN

• To detect or identify with your senses
• "To invent is to discern, to choose."

WE MUST DISCERN THE TRUTH.

ENIGMATIC

• Something hard to understand
• "I get interested in writers who are enigmatic."

THE BEST LIFE LESSONS ARE OFTEN THE MOST ENIGMATIC.

FACETIOUS

• Not meant to be taken seriously
• "I don't want to sound facetious, but humor is the key to the soul."

IT'S HARD TO TALK SERIOUSLY WITH SUCH A FACETIOUS GIRL.

GRATUITOUS

• Given without getting anything in return
• "Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy."

CHRISTMAS IS A GREAT TIME TO GIVE GRATUITOUS GIFTS.

RHETORICAL

• Asked merely for effect
• "Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS OFTEN CAUSE SELF REFLECTION.

RIVETED

• Attracted and held the attention of completely
• "But my eyes were riveted on a slim woman with a coil of curls at her neck."

THE FINAL PAGES OF THE SUSPENSEFUL BOOK RIVETED ME SO I WAS HARDLY BREATHING.

UBIQUITOUS

• Existing everywhere at the same time
• "I will defend the ubiquitous use of French."

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS UBIQUITOUS.

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