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Grade 11 Word of the Day
A new vocabulary word for grade 11 every school day — what it means, how it is used, and words that mean the same and the opposite. Below is the full free grade 11 word list.
Wednesday, September 2
Dissemble
verb
To conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
Similar: pretend, feign, fake, deceive · Opposite: reveal, disclose, show, exhibit
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The full grade 11 word list (210 words)
Pervade verb — (Especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of.
Vitiate verb — To impair the quality, effectiveness, or value of something: to corrupt or spoil.
Yahrzeit noun — In Jewish tradition, the anniversary of the death of a loved one, marked by the lighting of a memorial candle.
Abeyance noun — A state of temporary suspension or inactivity.
Bewilder verb — Cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused.
Disperse verb — Distribute or spread over a wide area.
Indolent adjective — Wanting to avoid activity or exertion: lazy.
Intently adjective — With earnest and eager attention or concentration.
Jubilant adjective — Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
Juncture noun — A particular point in events or time.
Pedantry noun — Excessive concern with minor details and rules.
Plethora noun — A large or excessive amount of (something).
Reticent adjective — Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
Taciturn adjective — Reserved or uncommunicative in speech: saying little.
Uxorious adjective — Inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife. (Inordinately: beyond normal limits.)
Benchmark noun — A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared or assessed.
Concise adjective — Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words: brief but comprehensive.
Conjure verb — Call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.
Guileless adjective — Naive.
Nefarious adjective — Wicked.
Sclerotic adjective — Hardening.
Votary noun — A devoted follower or adherent of a cause, belief, or person: one who is dedicated to a particular pursuit or activity.
Withering adjective — Devastating.
Aberrant adjective — Departing from the normal course or accepted standard.
Behemoth noun — Something enormous, especially a large and powerful organization.
Credence noun — Belief in or acceptance of something as true.
Dogmatic adjective — Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.
Martinet noun — A strict disciplinarian, especially in the armed forces.
Palatial adjective — Resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid.
Euphony noun — The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.
Effulgent adjective — Brilliantly radiant.
Pendulous adjective — Suspended, indecisive.
Querulous adjective — Cranky, whining.
Sagacious adjective — Wise, discerning.
Tenacious adjective — Persistent, cohesive.
Turbulent adjective — Restless, tempestuous. (Tempestuous: characterized by violent emotions or behavior.)
Voracious adjective — Ravenous, insatiable.
Charter noun — A written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined.
Coalesce verb — To come together to form one mass or whole.
Conflate verb — Combine (two or more texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
Contrite adjective — Feeling or expressing remorse or penitence: affected by guilt.
Inchoate adjective — Just begun and so not fully formed or developed.
Sedulous adjective — (Of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence.
Atrophy verb — Gradual decline in effectiveness or vigor due to underuse or neglect: to waste away or deteriorate.
Crapulous adjective — Immoderate in appetite. (Immoderate: beyond reasonable limits.)
Fervently adjective — With passionate intensity.
Hubristic adjective — Proud, excessively self-confident.
Ingenuous adjective — Innocent and unsuspecting.
Salacious adjective — Lustful or lecherous.
Sobriquet noun — A person's nickname.
Decorous adjective — In keeping with good taste and propriety: polite and restrained.
Diatribe noun — A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
Jettison verb — To throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.
Monastic adjective — Relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows.
Prodigal adjective — Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly: wastefully extravagant.
Vertigo noun — A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height.
Asinine adjective — Extremely stupid or foolish.
Bountiful adjective — Large in quantity: abundant.
Dyspeptic adjective — Grumpy, pessimistic, or irritable.
Tremulous adjective — Shaking or quivering slightly.
Vivacious adjective — Attractively lively and animated.
Conspire verb — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
Engender verb — To cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
Neophyte noun — A person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
Sanguine adjective — Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.
Coterie noun — A small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.
Assiduous adjective — Showing great care and perseverance.
Ebullient adjective — Cheerful and full of energy.
Erroneous adjective — Incorrect, mistaken, or containing errors.
Veracious adjective — Habitually truthful: honest and accurate.
Encomium noun — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
Malinger verb — To pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.
Mnemonic noun — A device or pattern assisting in the retention or retrieval of information.
Furtive adjective — Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble.
Restive adjective — Unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control, especially because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom.
Acquiesce verb — Accept something reluctantly but without protest.
Cognizant adjective — Having knowledge or awareness of something.
Consensus noun — A general agreement among various groups.
Garrulous adjective — Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
Heuristic adjective — Learning through trial-and-error or problem solving.
Lethargic adjective — Affected by lethargy: sluggish and apathetic. (Lethargy: a state of comatose torpor.)
Neologism noun — A newly coined word or expression.
Quotidian adjective — Of or occurring every day: daily.
Vitriolic adjective — Filled with bitter criticism or malice.
Corporal adjective — Of or relating to the human body, especially as distinct from the mind.
Ascetic adjective — Characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
Conundrum noun — A confusing and difficult problem or question.
Crescendo noun — A gradual increase in loudness or intensity.
Erudite adjective — Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
Facetious adjective — Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
Crockery noun — Plates, dishes, cups, and other similar items, especially ones made of earthenware or china.
Minatory adjective — Menacing.
Audacious adjective — Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
Dissemble verb — To conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
Mendicant noun — Given to begging: begging or relating to begging.
Parquetry noun — A mosaic-like patterned wood surface used for flooring.
Rejoinder noun — A reply, especially a sharp or witty one.
Artifact noun — An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
Palliate verb — To make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause.
Pastiche noun — An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
Sedition noun — Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
Seraphic adjective — Characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim, especially in being pure, bright, or fiery.
Histrionic adjective — Affected, theatrical.
Pernicious adjective — Injurious, deadly.
Impetuous adjective — Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.
Truculent adjective — Eager or quick to argue or fight: aggressively defiant.
Volition noun — The power or ability to make conscious choices or decisions: the act of willing or choosing.
Xenolith noun — A rock fragment or mineral inclusion within another rock, typically of a different origin or composition.
Contingent adjective — Subject to chance.
Fastidious adjective — Meticulous, overly delicate.
Perfidious adjective — Deceitful and untrustworthy.
Yuletide noun — The Christmas season.
Ambitious adjective — Having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
Coagulant noun — A substance that causes blood or other liquids to coagulate.
Mercurial adjective — Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Catalyst noun — A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.
Embezzle verb — Steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).
Encumber verb — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
Momentum noun — The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity.
Advocate verb — Publicly recommend or support.
Gregarious adjective — Fond of company: sociable.
Opprobrium noun — Harsh criticism or censure.
Veracity noun — Conformity to facts: accuracy.
Anodyne noun — Not likely to provoke dissent or offense: inoffensive, often deliberately so.
Aspersion noun — An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
Epicure noun — A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
Gradation noun — A scale or a series of successive changes, stages, or degrees.
Raconteur noun — A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Scintilla noun — A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling.
Whimsical adjective — Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
Exponent noun — A person who advocates or speaks in favor of something, especially a theory, proposal, or course of action.
Yataghan noun — A type of Turkish sword with a double-curved blade, typically used in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Aleatory adjective — Depending on luck or chance.
Balderdash noun — Senseless talk or writing: nonsense.
Burgeoning adjective — Growing or expanding rapidly: flourishing.
Cogitate verb — To think deeply or carefully.
Cupidity noun — Greed for money or possessions.
Curmudgeon noun — A bad-tempered or surly person.
Fortuitous adjective — Happening by accident or chance.
Inimical adjective — Tending to obstruct or harm.
Venerate verb — Regard with great respect: revere.
Cessation noun — The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.
Dissident noun — A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.
Yggdrasil noun — In Norse mythology, an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds.
Pastoral adjective — (Especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle.
Arrogate verb — To claim or take without justification.
Circuitous adjective — Longer than the most direct way.
Condescend verb — Show feelings of superiority: be patronizing.
Impervious adjective — Not allowing fluid to pass through.
Lugubrious adjective — Looking or sounding sad and dismal.
Synergy noun — The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Embellish verb — To make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
Sycophant noun — A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.
Rhetoric noun — The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Diaphanous adjective — (Especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.
Mitigate verb — To make less severe, serious, or painful.
Phlegmatic adjective — Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.
Stentorian adjective — (Of a person's voice) loud and powerful.
Fluctuate verb — To rise and fall irregularly in number or amount: to vary or change unpredictably.
Gestation noun — The process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth.
Perennial adjective — Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time: enduring or continually recurring.
Pervasive adjective — Widespread.
Abdicate verb — To renounce or relinquish power, authority, or responsibility.
Militate verb — Be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing.
Yesteryear noun — Last year or the time in the past.
Bystander noun — A person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.
Epitome noun — A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type.
Forestall verb — To prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking action ahead of time.
Execrable adjective — Wretched, detestable.
Amenable adjective — Open and responsive to suggestion: easily persuaded or controlled.
Cognitious adjective — Having a high level of cognitive ability or awareness.
Obsequious adjective — Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
Sybarite noun — A person who is fond of luxury and pleasure.
Tangential adjective — Relating to or along a tangent: diverging or digressing. (Diverging: tending to move apart in different directions.)
Accretion noun — The process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter.
Officious adjective — Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.
Declivity noun — A downward slope.
Capricious adjective — Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
Complacent adjective — Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
Disabuse verb — To persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken.
Disruption noun — Disturbance or problems that interrupt an event, activity, or process.
Enervate verb — To cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality.
Obdurate adjective — Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
Propitious adjective — Giving or indicating a good chance of success: favorable: auspicious.
Sacrosanct adjective — Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.
Volatile adjective — Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
Strategic adjective — Relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them.
Castigate verb — To reprimand (someone) severely.
Deference noun — Humble submission and respect.
Estimable adjective — Worthy of great respect.
Abrogate verb — Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
Apostate noun — A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
Pragmatic adjective — Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
Adumbrate verb — To foreshadow vaguely or partially. (Foreshadow: indicate, as with a sign or an omen.)
Analgesia noun — The inability to feel pain.
Avocation noun — A hobby or minor occupation.
Itinerant adjective — Traveling from place to place.
Obfuscate verb — Render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
Wabi-sabi adjective — A Japanese aesthetic embracing imperfection.
Bellicose adjective — Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
Cacophony noun — A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
Circumspect adjective — Wary and unwilling to take risks.
Desultory adjective — Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
Impudence noun — The quality of being impudent: impertinence.
Invective noun — Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.
Reputable adjective — Having a good reputation: honorable, respectable.
Solecism noun — A grammatical mistake in speech or writing, regarded as a characteristic of a speaker or writer who has not yet attained a high level of proficiency.
Soporific adjective — Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep. (Drowsiness: a very sleepy state.)
Veritable adjective — Being truly or very much so.
Concession noun — A thing that is granted, especially in response to demands: a thing conceded.