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Grade 12 Vocab

Grade 12 Vocab. Group 3: Lack. Warm-up, Monday 9/23 Copy these vocabulary words:. 1. ascetic (a se’ tik ) A. leading a lifestyle of self-denial and restraint, especially for religious reasons The monk maintained an ascetic lifestyle, shunning all luxuries and excesses.

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Grade 12 Vocab

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  1. Grade 12 Vocab Group 3: Lack

  2. Warm-up, Monday 9/23Copy these vocabulary words: 1. ascetic (a se’ tik) A. leading a lifestyle of self-denial and restraint, especially for religious reasons The monk maintained an ascetic lifestyle, shunning all luxuries and excesses. 2. benighted (bi ni’ ted) A. ignorant or lacking insight The benighted idea that ethnicity determines intelligence has been empirically disproved. 3. desuetude (de' switüd) N. a state of disuse After months of desuetude, the car would not start; its battery was dead.

  3. Warm-up, Tuesday 9/24 4. dotage (dō’ tij) N. mental deterioration associated with  advanced age Elderly people in their dotage are often the targets of scams and chicaneries. 5. insular (in’ sülər) A. isolated or provincial The farm was truly insular; it was the only homestead in the county. 6. nihilism (nē’ə li zem) N. a viewpoint that denies any meaning or value to life When people hold to nihilism’s  philosophy that life has no meaning, they are bound to become pessimistic.

  4. 7. nonplus (nänpləs’) V. to confuse someone so that the person does not know what to say or do Confused by the unexpected flattery, the normally talkative Nancy was nonplussed. 8. nugatory (nü’ ga tor e) A. having no force or effect The medicine was nugatory because it was, in fact, a placebo rather than the real thing. 9. torpor (tor’por) N. a state of mental or physical sluggishness or inactivity In the excessive heat, the animals at the zoo displayed signs of torpor and hardly moved. 10. vacuous (va ’kyuwus) A. lacking intelligence or ideas Victor’s assertion of his own intelligence was contradicted by his many vacuous statements.

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