English 1.1: Building Your Vocabulary
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Part 1
Read over the following list of words. Make sure to look up those you do not recognize in the dictionary to be sure to get their correct meaning.
Define each word and then use each word in a sentence to prove that you understand its meaning and correct usage in a complete sentence.
Abode
Innate
Acerbate
Inundating
Altruistic
Kinesthetic
Apparatus
Laconic
Authoritative
Lethal
Banal
Linguistic
Baroque
Loquacious
Benevolent
Magnanimous
Clandestine
Meticulous
Collegial
Mettle
Compelling
Monetary
Constraint
Nuance
Contradict
Palpitate
Dearth
Paramount
Debacle
Parlance
Deferential
Perpetuate
Despondent
Placate
Discern
Plethora
Dissent
Polyphonic
Dissipate
Posit
Droll
Prescience
Dubious
Profligate
Efficacious
Profuse
Efficacy
Proliferation
Elicit
Psychometrics
Embezzlement
Rebuttal
Eminent
Refrain (Noun)
Emit
Refrain (Verb)
Envelop
Refute
Epistemology
Reimburse
Eradicate
Reiterate
Erudite
Render (Noun)
Esthetic
Render (Verb)
Evade
Revelatory
Exacerbate
Revoke
Exasperating
Separatists
Feat
Subsidence
Germane
Succinct
Gravitas
Surfeit
Heed
Tome
Heterodoxy
Treacherous
Idiosyncrasy
Usage
Idiosyncratic
Veracity
Ignominious
Vernacular
Illicit
Viable
Impede
Vicinity
Implements
Volatile
Incipient
Wage
Incite
Yearn
Inimical
Zeal
Part 2
Select 25 of the vocabulary words and incorporate them into a 600-word essay explaining how frequent reading can help improve one’s vocabulary usage.
