{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-vocab-grade-11",
 "id": "la-vocab-grade-11",
 "title": "Vocabulary: Grade 11",
 "category": "language-arts",
 "subject": "English",
 "levels": [
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Grade 11 words with clear definitions.",
 "tags": [
  "vocabulary",
  "grade 11",
  "college prep"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "abstruse",
   "Hard to understand"
  ],
  [
   "acerbic",
   "Sharp and harsh in tone"
  ],
  [
   "admonish",
   "To warn gently but firmly"
  ],
  [
   "anachronism",
   "Something out of its proper time"
  ],
  [
   "anathema",
   "A thing strongly disliked"
  ],
  [
   "apocryphal",
   "Of doubtful authenticity"
  ],
  [
   "appease",
   "To calm by giving in"
  ],
  [
   "arcane",
   "Known by few; mysterious"
  ],
  [
   "auspicious",
   "Suggesting a good future"
  ],
  [
   "avarice",
   "Greed for wealth"
  ],
  [
   "beguile",
   "To charm or trick"
  ],
  [
   "bombastic",
   "High-sounding but meaningless"
  ],
  [
   "cajole",
   "To persuade with flattery"
  ],
  [
   "censorious",
   "Severely critical"
  ],
  [
   "charlatan",
   "A person who fakes skill"
  ],
  [
   "churlish",
   "Rude and bad-tempered"
  ],
  [
   "cloying",
   "Too sweet"
  ],
  [
   "conundrum",
   "A confusing problem"
  ],
  [
   "countenance",
   "A person's face or expression"
  ],
  [
   "deleterious",
   "Harmful"
  ],
  [
   "demur",
   "To object politely"
  ],
  [
   "despot",
   "A ruler with absolute power"
  ],
  [
   "disabuse",
   "To free from a false belief"
  ],
  [
   "efficacious",
   "Producing the wanted result"
  ],
  [
   "enmity",
   "Deep hostility"
  ],
  [
   "ennui",
   "Boredom"
  ],
  [
   "ephemeral",
   "Short-lived"
  ],
  [
   "equivocate",
   "To use unclear words to avoid commitment"
  ],
  [
   "esoteric",
   "Understood by only a few"
  ],
  [
   "exculpate",
   "To clear from blame"
  ],
  [
   "exigent",
   "Urgent"
  ],
  [
   "extant",
   "Still existing"
  ],
  [
   "facetious",
   "Joking at the wrong time"
  ],
  [
   "fatuous",
   "Silly"
  ],
  [
   "fecund",
   "Fertile"
  ],
  [
   "fulminate",
   "To protest loudly"
  ],
  [
   "gainsay",
   "To deny"
  ],
  [
   "gauche",
   "Awkward socially"
  ],
  [
   "grandiloquent",
   "Using fancy language"
  ],
  [
   "hegemony",
   "Leadership or dominance by one group"
  ],
  [
   "histrionic",
   "Overly dramatic"
  ],
  [
   "hubris",
   "Excessive pride"
  ],
  [
   "impecunious",
   "Having little money"
  ],
  [
   "inchoate",
   "Just begun, not formed"
  ],
  [
   "ineffable",
   "Too great to be put in words"
  ],
  [
   "insipid",
   "Lacking flavor or interest"
  ],
  [
   "inveterate",
   "Long established"
  ],
  [
   "lachrymose",
   "Tearful"
  ],
  [
   "loquacious",
   "Talkative"
  ],
  [
   "lugubrious",
   "Mournful"
  ],
  [
   "malleable",
   "Easily shaped"
  ],
  [
   "mendacious",
   "Lying"
  ],
  [
   "mercurial",
   "Quickly changing in mood"
  ],
  [
   "misanthrope",
   "One who dislikes people"
  ],
  [
   "mollify",
   "To soothe"
  ],
  [
   "obdurate",
   "Stubbornly refusing"
  ],
  [
   "obsequious",
   "Too eager to please"
  ]
 ]
}