English Unit 3 Vocab

Advocate

To promote

Antipathy

A strong dislike

Emancipate

To free

Idiosyncrasy

A personal habit

Imminent

Likely to occur soon

Impede

To slow down

Inclusive

Complete

Iurisdiction

Control

Precarious

Unsafe

Preposterous

Rediculous

Austere

Very plain

Esoteric

Difficult to understand

Facsimile

An accurate copy

Grotesque

Strange-looking

Mesmerize

To fascinate

Metamorphosis

To change in form

Notorious

Regarded negatively

Perfunctory

Uninterested

Provocative

Attention getting

Travesty

A joking, disrespectful imitation

Connoisseur

A leader

Conspiracy

A plot

Contrite

Sorry

Distraught

Upset

Germane

Related

Lucid

Easy To understand

Plight

An unfortunate situation

Superficially

Slightly

Verbose

Wordy

Symmetrical

Balanced

Adept

Skillful

Encompass

To include

Entrepreneur

A business investor

Eradicate

To erase

Homogeneous

The same throughout

Presumptuous

Too forward

Sordid

Ugly

Standardize

To make the same

Stint

Future work

Stringent

Demanding

Exhort

To urge

Flamboyant

Flashy

Foible

A minor fault

Innocuous

Without bad affects

Masochist

Someone who enjoys being hurt