Name:_______________________________ Pre-AP English, Period _____ Date:______________

Vocabulary #4 - A REVIEW WITH SOME NEW
Express each vocabulary word with artwork or a complete, grammatically perfect sentence. 

1.  ubiquitous - (you-bih'-kwi-tuss) - adj. present, appearing, or found everywhere; existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : WIDESPREAD
Today's media has become increasingly ubiquitous with Internet pop-ups, streaming television, mobile phone texting, video clips, MP3 players and pod-casting.

2.  salient – sticking out; conspicuous - adj.
A salient characteristic is one that leaps right out at you, like the nose on an elephant.

3.  turpitude – shameful wickedness; depravity - noun
Larry was sacked by his boss because of a flagrant act of turpitude.

4.  iconoclast (noun) or iconoclastic (adjective) - 1 : a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration
2 : a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
Iraqi Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus both have "somewhat iconoclastic views" about the war in Iraq. However, they are expected to maintain personal integrity and professional objectivity. -Former ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine (Montagne)

5.  egregious: \ih-GREE-juhs\, adjective:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
But by failing to understand the asymmetry of commitment between the United States and the Vietnamese communists,
they paved the way for committing the most egregious error a country going to war can make: underestimating
the adversary's capacity to prevail while overestimating one's own. -- Jeffrey Record, The Wrong War ("Egregious").

6. Efflorescence:  Blooming of flowers, state of flowering - noun
The efflorescence of the bouquet lifted our spirits.

7.  Ebullience:  Zestful or spirited enthusiasm - noun
The ebullience of the cheerleader motivated the teamon to victory.

8.  exigency – an emergency; an urgency - noun
An example of an academic exigency is when you haven’t opened a book all term and the final is tomorrow.

9.  Aberration:  1. a departure from what is normal or acceptable. 2 a mental or moral lapse - noun
Aberration: a departure from rational thought or behavior. It means basically to err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have fixed ideas which are not true.
Criminal activity is not considered an aberration but the norm among those who have no developed conscience.

10.  demagogue: noun 1 : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
2 : a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times
The country is slowly going the way of the Congo, eagerly embracing every demagogue who comes along -- until the next one (Coulter).