Ferguson Vocabulary

Ferguson Vocabulary
Vocabulary for the week of April 21st

Test date: Thursday, April 24^th

1. oblivious: (adj) forgetful, absent minded, lacking conscious knowledge

2. barb: (noun) a biting or pointedly critical remark or comment

3. bellow: (verb) to shout in a loud voice

4. regale: (verb) to entertain or give pleasure to (as in: to regale your friends with adventurous stories)

5. replica: (noun) a close reproduction or copy, duplicate

Test Friday, March 7^th

1. concur: (verb) to agree

2. adamant: (adj) unyielding, unshakable or unmovable especially in opposition

3. animated: (adj) alive, living, full of movement and activity

4. problematic: (adj) having the nature of a problem, difficult and uncertain, puzzling

5. horrendous: (adj) dreadful, horrible

Vocabulary for Week of Feb 22nd

Test Friday Feb 29^th

1. habitat: (noun) the place or type of site where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives or grows

2. stupendous: (adj) stupefying or amazing especially because of size, complexity, or greatness

3. widespread: (adj) widely prevalent or distributed, common

4. species: (noun) a class of individual with common qualities and a common name

5. ooze: (verb) to move slowly, to pass or flow slowly

Test Thursday, Feb. 14^th

1. retort: (verb) to answer back, to reply angrily or sharply

2. scoff: (verb) to show or treat with contempt, mock, tease, taunt

3. nurture: (verb) to supply with nourishment and/or care, to further the development of, educate

4. usher: (verb) to guide to a place, steer in a specific direction

5. loathe: (verb) to dislike greatly often with disgust or intolerance, detest

TEST DATE FEB. 8th

1. taunt: (verb) make fun of, jeer at, mock

2. visage: (noun) appearance, face

3. rapscallion: (noun) rascal, scamp, pest, stinker

4. fray: (noun) noisy quarrel or fight

5. persuade: (verb)to prevail on a person to do something, by urging or advising

Vocabulary List: Week of Jan 28^th

Test Friday, February 1^st

1. superlative: (adj) surpassing all others, supreme

2. insufferable: (adj) not able to be endured, intolerable, annoying

3. pugnacious: (adj) having a troublesome or quarrelsome nature, belligerent, punchy

4. innovative: (adj) original, fresh, new

5. apathetic: (adj) having or showing little or not feeling or emotion

Test Friday, January 25, 2008

1. unison (noun): speaking or singing together as one

2. livid (adj): extremely angry

3. atrocious (adj): cruel, wicked

4. comely (adj): attractive

5. unsightly (adj): offensive to the eyes, ugly

Test Thursday, January 17, 2007

1. periodically: (adverb) regularly, characteristically

2. amble: (verb) to walk slowly or leisurely

3. peruse: (verb) read, to study attentively

4. hue: (noun) color

5. coiffure: (noun) hair style

Test Friday, January, 11, 2007

1. compatriot: (noun) fellow countryman, colleague, companion

2. boisterous: (adj) noisily rough, rowdy

3. purported: (adj) rumored, alleged, reputed

4. peer: (noun) equal, fellow, friend

5. forebode: (verb) foretell, foresee, have a premonition or feeling about something

Week of September 17

otiose: (adj) lazy, idle,
dread: (n) fear, anxiety, terror
punctilious: (adj) painstaking, meticulous, thorough, socially correct,
adept: (adj) competent
witty: (adj) amusing, humorous, clever, sharp

Week of September 24th

jocose: (adj) merry, humorous
glower: (vb) to stare angrily, glare
loquacious: (adj) talkative
distraught: (adj) troubled with doubt or mental conflict

5. snivel: (vb) to cry or whine in a weakly emotional way

Week of October 1st

malevolent (adj): mean, evil, showing ill will toward another
querulous (adj): habitually complaining, fretful
swivel (vb): to turn
muffle (vb): to suppress, to deaden the sound of
wisp (n): a thin strip or fragment, a thread-like streak (as in a wisp of smoke)

Week of October 8, 2007

1. demise: (n) fate, end result, end of existence or activity

2. meager: (adj) having very little, sparse, scant, lack of fullness

3. commence: (verb) to start or initiate

4. garb: (verb) clothing, style, apparel

5. perceptive: (adj) observant, discerning

Week of October 15

NO VOCABULARY WORDS THIS WEEK!!!!!

Week of October 22

Sleuth (noun): an investigator or detective
Deduce (verb): collecting the facts and drawing a possible conclusion
Evidence (noun): something or someone that proves who committed the crime
Alibi (noun): a plea offered by an accused person of where they were when a crime was committed
Red herring (noun): a false lead that throws the investigator off track

Week of October 29^th, 2007

1. query: (noun) question, inquiry

2. appropriate: (adj) especially fitting or suitable

3. encounter: (verb) to meet, to come upon face to face

4. titanic: (adj) vast in size and/or force, colossal

5. petite: (adj) having a small or trim figure, little, miniscule

Week of November 5th

1. amiable- (adj.) having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities
2. martinet- (n.) a strict disciplinarian
3. terse- (adj.) neatly or effectively concise
4. differentiate- (v.) to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish
5. pandemonium- (n.) wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; chaos

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13TH NO VOCABULARY!

Week of November 26th

1. woe: (noun) a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief.

2. slump: (verb) to drop or slide down suddenly, collapse

3. plethora: (noun) an excessive quantity or fullness

4. monotone: (noun) a succession of syllables, words, or sentences in one unvaried tone or pitch

5. dearth: (noun) scarcity, famine, inadequate supply, lack of

Vocabulary List: Week of Dec. 3

1. portal: (noun) door or entrance

2. proboscis: (noun) nose or snout

3. pontificate: (verb) to speak or lecture

4. wretched: (adj) miserable, depressed, distressed, dejected

5. elude: (verb) to avoid or escape someone or something