{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-vocab-grade-12",
 "id": "la-vocab-grade-12",
 "title": "Vocabulary: Grade 12",
 "category": "language-arts",
 "subject": "English",
 "levels": [
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Advanced words for college-bound readers, with clear definitions.",
 "tags": [
  "vocabulary",
  "grade 12",
  "college prep"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "acumen",
   "Sharp judgment, especially in business"
  ],
  [
   "alacrity",
   "Quick, cheerful eagerness"
  ],
  [
   "ambiguity",
   "Uncertainty of meaning"
  ],
  [
   "ameliorate",
   "To make better"
  ],
  [
   "anomalous",
   "Not following the usual pattern"
  ],
  [
   "antediluvian",
   "Extremely old-fashioned"
  ],
  [
   "apotheosis",
   "The perfect example or highest point"
  ],
  [
   "approbation",
   "Approval"
  ],
  [
   "ascertain",
   "To find out for certain"
  ],
  [
   "assuage",
   "To make less severe"
  ],
  [
   "attenuate",
   "To make thinner or weaker"
  ],
  [
   "axiom",
   "A statement accepted as true"
  ],
  [
   "bellwether",
   "A leader or indicator of trends"
  ],
  [
   "byzantine",
   "Very complicated"
  ],
  [
   "cacophonous",
   "Harsh-sounding"
  ],
  [
   "canonical",
   "Accepted as a standard"
  ],
  [
   "capitulate",
   "To give in"
  ],
  [
   "cathartic",
   "Bringing emotional release"
  ],
  [
   "circuitous",
   "Taking a long, roundabout way"
  ],
  [
   "cognizant",
   "Aware"
  ],
  [
   "commensurate",
   "In proportion to"
  ],
  [
   "conflagration",
   "A large destructive fire"
  ],
  [
   "connotation",
   "An idea suggested by a word beyond its literal meaning"
  ],
  [
   "consternation",
   "Dismay or alarm"
  ],
  [
   "cynosure",
   "A center of attention"
  ],
  [
   "dearth",
   "A scarcity"
  ],
  [
   "debacle",
   "A total failure"
  ],
  [
   "decry",
   "To publicly condemn"
  ],
  [
   "dichotomy",
   "A division into two opposite parts"
  ],
  [
   "diffident",
   "Shy and lacking confidence"
  ],
  [
   "dilettante",
   "A person with shallow interest in a subject"
  ],
  [
   "discursive",
   "Wandering from topic to topic"
  ],
  [
   "disingenuous",
   "Not sincere"
  ],
  [
   "dissonance",
   "Harsh clash of sounds or ideas"
  ],
  [
   "ebullient",
   "Overflowing with enthusiasm"
  ],
  [
   "effrontery",
   "Shameless boldness"
  ],
  [
   "elegy",
   "A sad poem for someone who died"
  ],
  [
   "empirical",
   "Based on evidence"
  ],
  [
   "epitome",
   "A perfect example"
  ],
  [
   "equitable",
   "Fair"
  ],
  [
   "erroneous",
   "Wrong"
  ],
  [
   "evanescent",
   "Quickly fading"
  ],
  [
   "exacerbate",
   "To make worse"
  ],
  [
   "exhaustive",
   "Complete in every detail"
  ],
  [
   "exigency",
   "An urgent need"
  ],
  [
   "fastidious",
   "Hard to please"
  ],
  [
   "fortitude",
   "Strength of mind in hard times"
  ],
  [
   "gratuitous",
   "Given without good reason"
  ],
  [
   "harbinger",
   "A sign of what is coming"
  ],
  [
   "idyllic",
   "Peaceful and charming"
  ],
  [
   "imperturbable",
   "Unable to be upset"
  ],
  [
   "indefatigable",
   "Never tiring"
  ],
  [
   "ingenuous",
   "Innocent and open"
  ],
  [
   "inimical",
   "Harmful or hostile"
  ],
  [
   "insurmountable",
   "Too great to overcome"
  ],
  [
   "juxtapose",
   "To place side by side for contrast"
  ],
  [
   "lassitude",
   "Weariness"
  ],
  [
   "magnanimity",
   "Generosity of spirit"
  ],
  [
   "perfunctory",
   "Done with little care"
  ],
  [
   "pernicious",
   "Very harmful"
  ],
  [
   "perspicacious",
   "Having keen insight"
  ],
  [
   "pithy",
   "Short and full of meaning"
  ],
  [
   "quixotic",
   "Idealistic but impractical"
  ],
  [
   "recalcitrant",
   "Stubbornly resisting"
  ],
  [
   "sanguine",
   "Cheerfully hopeful"
  ],
  [
   "sycophant",
   "A person who flatters for gain"
  ],
  [
   "taciturn",
   "Saying very little"
  ],
  [
   "tenuous",
   "Weak or thin"
  ],
  [
   "trepidation",
   "Fearful worry"
  ],
  [
   "vicissitude",
   "A change of circumstances"
  ],
  [
   "vociferous",
   "Loud and forceful"
  ],
  [
   "zealous",
   "Full of eager energy"
  ]
 ]
}