Vocabulary SLO Tier 2 Word List List A 1. Artifact (Noun) a simple object (such as a tool or weapon) that was made by people in the past. 2. Concur (Verb) to agree. 3. Covert (Adjective) secret or hidden. 4. Crusade (Noun) a war or aggressive movement carried out for a belief system or idea. (Verb) to engage in a war or aggressive movement carried out for a belief system or idea. 5. Defiance (Noun) open resistance; bold disobedience. 6. Eligible (Adjective) able to be chosen for something. 7. Embargo (Noun) an official ban or trade. (Verb) to impose an official ban or trade. 8. Exacerbate (Verb) to make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse. 9. Hypocrisy (Noun) the practice of claiming to have moral standards and behaving in the opposite manner. 10. Icon (Noun) a person who is very successful and admired; a widely known symbol. 11. Judicious (Adjective) having good judgment. 12. Manifest (Verb) to display or show by one’s acts or appearance; to demonstrate. (Adjective) clear or obvious to the eye or mind. 13. Oppress (Verb) to treat someone or a group of people in a cruel or unfair way. 14. Personable (Adjective) easy to get along with. 15. Prominent (Adjective) important, famous. 16. Zealot (Noun) a person with fanatical beliefs about something.
List B (All Adjectives) 1. Abrasive tending to annoy or cause ill will; overly aggressive. 2. Aloof not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. 3. Arrogant conceited; selfimportant. 4. Devious showing a skillful use of dishonest tactics to achieve goals. 5. Foreboding marked by a feeling that something bad is going to happen. 6. Formidable very powerful or strong; deserving serious attention and respect. 7. Gullible easily persuaded to believe something. 8. Impending about to happen. 9. Incredulous unwilling or unable to believe something. 10. Insubordinate defiant of authority; disobedient to orders. 11. Malevolent having or showing a wish to do evil to others. 12. Mediocre of only ordinary or average quality. 13. Miscellaneous including many things of different kinds. 14. Overbearing trying to control the behavior of other people in an annoying or unwanted way. 15. Patronizing showing that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people. 16. Versatile able to do many different things; having many different uses. 17. Voracious having a very eager approach to an activity.
List C (All Verbs) 1. Adhere to stick to something; to attach firmly to something. 2. Advocate to support or argue for (a cause, policy, etc.) 3. Bewilder to confuse someone very much. 4. Circumvent to get around something in a clever and sometimes dishonest way. 5. Convene to come together in a group for a meeting. 6. Depict to show something in a picture, painting, photograph; to describe something. 7. Diminish to become or to cause something to become less in size. 8. Distort to pull or twist out of shape; to give a misleading or false account of. 9. Fluctuate to rise and fall regularly in number or amount. 10. Mortify to cause someone to feel very embarrassed or foolish. 11. Obliterate to destroy completely. 12. Pacify to cause someone who is angry or upset to become calm or quiet. 13. Peruse to look at or read in an informed or relaxed way. 14. Regurgitate to repeat a fact or idea without fully understanding it. 15. Surmise to form an opinion without definitely knowing the truth. 16. Transmit to give or pass information from one person to another; to send an electrical signal. 17. Writhe to move with a twisting or contorted motion.
List D (All Adjectives) 1. Bland not interesting or exciting. 2. Coherent logical and well organized; easy to understand. 3. Eloquent having or showing the ability to use language clearly and effectively. 4. Enormity great size or importance. 5. Haughty having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think they are better. 6. Implicit understood though not clearly or directly stated. 7. Lucid very clear or easy to understand. 8. Mutual shared between two or more people or groups. 9. Naïve having or showing a lack of experience or knowledge; innocent or simple. 10. Ominous suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future 11. Redundant characterized by unnecessary repetition of ideas. 12. Sedentary involving a lot of sitting; not involving much physical activity. 13. Subsequent happening or coming after something else. 14. Substantial large in amount, size, or number. 15. Tactile relating to the sense of touch. 16. Tedious too long, slow, or dull. 17. Vindictive having or showing a desire to hurt someone who has hurt or caused problems for you.
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Aesthetic (Adjective) of or relating to art or beauty. Analogy (Noun) a comparison of two things based on their similarities. Apathy (Noun) the feeling of not having much emotion or interest. Articulate (Adjective) able to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech or writing. (Verb) to express an idea in words. 5. Debacle (Noun) a great disaster or complete failure. 6. Dominate (Verb) to have control or power over someone or something. 7. Empathy (Noun) the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experience and emotions. 8. Enamored (Adjective) to be filled with a feeling of love for. 9. Exploit (Verb) to get value or use from. (Noun) an exciting act or action. 10. Extrovert (Noun) an outgoing person. 11. Imperative (Adjective) of vital importance; crucial. (Noun) a command, rule, or duty that is very important or necessary. 12. Implement (Noun) an object used to do work. (Verb) to put (a plan, decision, agreement) into effect. 13. Implore (Verb) to make a very serious or emotional request. 14. Magnitude (Noun) the size, extent, or importance of something. 15. Meander (Verb) to walk slowly without a goal or purpose; to go from one topic to another without any clear direction. 16. Prodigal (Adjective) carelessly and foolishly spending money, time, etc. (Noun) a son or daughter who leaves his or her parents to do things that they do not approve of but then feels sorry and returns home.
List F 1. Anterior (Adjective) near or towards the front of something. 2. Autonomy (Noun) the power or right of a person, country, group, etc to govern itself. 3. Bankrupt (Adjective) unable to pay debts. 4. Cater (Verb) to provide what is wanted or needed by someone or something. 5. Cognition (Noun) the mental action of gaining knowledge through thoughts and experiences. 6. Coincide (Verb) to happen at the same time as something else. 7. Condescend (Verb) to show that you are more intelligent or better than other people. 8. Contrary (Adjective) exactly opposite to something else. 9. Culminate (Verb) to reach the end or final result of something. 10. Dehydrate (Verb) to remove water or moisture from. 11. Demise (Noun) the end of something that is thought of to be like a death. 12. Inevitable (Adjective) sure to happen. 13. Malignant (Adjective) very serious and dangerous; likely to grow in a rapid or uncontrolled way. 14. Restitution (Noun) the act of returning something that was lost or stolen to its owner. 15. Seclusion (Noun) the state of being away from other people. 16. Synchronize (Verb) to make things happen at the same time or speed.