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Pre-AP English, Period _____

Date:______________

Vocabulary #11

Express each vocabulary word with artwork.
Draw a cartoon, caricature or other art driven production to show word meaning.

1. ABSTRUSE (ab STROOS rhymes with “loose”): hard to understand, mysterious, concealed

The language in the report was abstruse and very difficult to understand.

2. BLATANT (BLAY t’nt): obtrusive, noisy, offensive

The blatant disregard for class rules annoys Mrs. Micheel.

3. CRAVEN (CRAY v’n): cowardly, fainthearted

Ryan keeps telling me that snowboarding is not for a craven person to undertake.

4. PROGNOSIS (prog rhymes with “frog” NO siss): outlook, outcome, foreknowledge

The prognosis for the man with cancer was actually quite good with proper treatment.

5. DISMAL (DIZZ m’l): unpleasant, evil, unlucky, disagreeable

The weather was utterly dismal; it rained every day we were there.

6. ESOTERIC (ezz oh TEAR ik): difficult to understand

French is very esoteric to me; I’ve taken it twice and never mastered it.

7. GLITCH (glitch ): slip, mistake, misstep, malfunction

The school computers usually have some glitch or other that makes them difficult to use.

8. INNUENDO (in you ENN doh): insinuation, hint

Alicia kept dropping little innuendoes about her feelings for Sam.

9. PREREQUISITE (pree RECK qwiz it): something required beforehand

German 1 is a prerequisite for taking German 2.

10. VOCATION (voh KAY shun): calling, profession, inclination

Shane never thought that being a prison guard would be his vocation.