VOCABULARY LOG

THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES

Date

UNKNOWN WORD

DEFINITION

SYNONYMS

Column2

BURLESQUE

an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of

something, especially in a literary or dramatic
work; a parody:

parody, caricature, satire,

lampoon, skit, farce, sendup,
takeoff, spoof, striptease, strip

NOUN

SCATALOGICAL

obscenity especially words or humor referring to

excrement

RACONTEUR

a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and

amusing way.

ENTENDRES

a double meaning

INANITY

a nonsensical remark or action, lack of

significance, pointless, silliness

RIBALD

referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude

or irreverent way:

PEDAGOGICAL

relating to teaching

RHETORIC

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing,

especially the use of figures of speech and other
compositional techniques.

oratory, eloquence, command of

language, way with words

NOUN

SUBVERTS

undermine the power and authority of (an established

system or institution):

destabilize, unsettle, overthrow,

overturn, bring down, topple

VERB

UNAMBIGUOUS
PEDAGOGY
ALLERGORICAL

not open to more than one interpretation:

practice of teaching
having hidden spiritual meaning

PROFESSOR JACKIE ENG 101

NOUN
storyteller, teller of tales,
spinner of yarns, narrator,
anecdotist, anecdotalist

NOUN

NOUN
vulgar, rude, naughty,
suggestive, bawdy, off-color,
indecent

ADJECTIVE
ADJECTIVE

ADJECTIVE
ADJECTIVE

VOCABULARY LOG

THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES

Date

UNKNOWN WORD

DEFINITION

SYNONYMS

Column2

DISCURSIVE

digressing from subject to subject

rambling, digressive, meandering,

wandering, maundering

ADJECTIVE

MULTIPLICITY

a large number

PROFESSOR JACKIE ENG 101

VOCABULARY LOG

THE WATCHMEN

Date

UNKNOWN WORD

DEFINITION

5/5/16

PRECIPICE

a very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one

5/9/16

PROFESSOR JACKIE
SYNONYMS

ENG 101
Column2

ABATTOIR

noun: a slaugherhouse

synonyms: slaughterhouse, butchery,

shambles

ANTAGONIZE

cause (someone) to become hostile:

synonyms: arouse hostility in, alienate,

anger, annoy, provoke, vex, irritate,

VERB

AFFECTATIONS

behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and

designed to impress:

pretension, pretentiousness,
affectedness, artificiality, posturing

NOUN

ASPERSIONS

an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame,

something
run down, impugn, belittle

NOUN

LIBIDINOUS

showing excessive sexual drive; lustful

lustful, lecherous, lascivious, lewd,

carnal, salacious, prurient

ABERRATION

a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected,

typically one that is unwelcome:

anomaly, deviation, departure from the

norm, divergence, abnormality

DERISIVE

expressing contempt or ridicule

mocking, jeering, scoffing, teasing,

derisory, snide, sneering

ADJECTIVE

annoying; humiliating

annoying, irritating, vexing, vexatious,

infuriating, maddening, irksome,
provoking, exasperating, trying,
tiresome, troublesome, bothersome,
displeasing, disagreeable, aggravating

ADJECTIVE

GALLING

NOUN

ADJECTIVE

NOUN

5/10/16

PANTHEON

all the gods of a people or religion collectively

ORIGIN: late Middle English (referring

especially to the circular temple built
by Hadrian, Severus, and Caracalla in
Rome): via Latin from Greek pantheion,
from pan all + theion holy (from
theos god).

DERELICT

in a very poor condition as a result of disuse and

neglect

damned, doomed, lost, condemned to

hell, censured, faulted, convicted,
accursed, dilapidated

COGS

a wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge

that transfers motion by engaging with projections on
another wheel or bar.

JALOPY

an old car in a dilapidated condition

VERMICULATED

(especially of the plumage of a bird) marked with

sinuous or wavy lines; carved or molded with shallow
wavy grooves resembling the tracks of worms.

IMBUED

inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality:

MACADAM
CREPUSCULAR

broken stone of even size used in successively

compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and
typically bound with tar or bitumen
of, resembling, or relating to twilight.

NOUN

ADJECTIVE

NOUN
dilapidated car, clunker, lemon, bucket
of bolts, wreck, Tin Lizzie, rustbucket,
heap, junker, beater, hooptie

ADJECTIVE

permeate, saturate, diffuse, suffuse,

pervade, bathe, drench, steep,
impregnate, inject, inculcate, ingrain,
instill, invest, inspire, breathe, fill

VERB

NOUN
ADJECTIVE

5/11/16

BELEAGUERED

lay siege to

MUNITIONS

military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores:

COALESCE

come together and form one mass or whole:

besieged, under siege, blockaded,

surrounded, encircled, beset, hemmed
in, under attack besieged, under siege,
blockaded, surrounded, encircled,
beset, hemmed in, under attack

VERB
NOUN

merge, unite, join together, combine,

fuse, mingle, blend, amalgamate,
consolidate, integrate, homogenize,
converge

VERB

VOCABULARY LOG

UNIT 3

Date

UNKNOWN WORD

DEFINITION

SYNONYMS

5/22/16

denigrated

criticize unfairly; disparage:

disparage, belittle, deprecate,

decry, cast aspersions on, criticize

verb

excessive pride or self-confidence

arrogance, conceit, haughtiness,

hauteur, pride, self-importance,
egotism, pomposity,
superciliousness, superiority, bigheadedness, cockiness

noun

hubris

PROFESSOR JACKIE

ENG 101

Column2