PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR VOCAB Get ready for

PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR VOCAB Get ready for week 2 Put your totem on the bookshelf

11 TH VOCAB. WEEK 2 1) Pessimism – gloominess, belief the bad guy will win Ruby’s pessimism convinced her she was too old to go back to school.

2) Reprove – to scold, to find fault with Any mother in her right mind would reprove of her teenage daughter’s forty-year-old boyfriend.

3) Jocular – joking, goodnatured Hoping to ease up the audience, the host tried being a little more jocular by telling jokes.

4) Profligate – extremely wasteful Since she is a profligate spender, Jill buys tons of items she never uses.

5) Fracas – uproar, brawl The husband wife were fined by the judge for starting a fracas in court.

6) Contentious – quarrelsome, prone to fighting, argumentative, combative The candidate’s stance on abortion will be a contentious topic among voters.

7) Corroborate – to confirm, to substantiate I prayed my friend would corroborate the lie I told my parents!

8) Miserly – hoarding money, penny-pinching The miserly man never buys anything unless he has a coupon for it.

9) Fervent – impassioned, intense, ardent, earnest Jack’s fervent love for Kelly encouraged him to tattoo her name on his back.

10) Embellish – to add details The student embellished his truck with camo paint.