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Vocabulary

Unit 8

+Adjunct Mr. Brown was an adjunct professor at the

University of Illinois; he visited campus frequently and gave guest lectures, but he wasn’t a full-time member of the faculty.

+Caterwaul Winifred, Sarah, and Mary started caterwauling

in horror when they found themselves outside at dawn; as witches, they couldn’t handle being in the sun.

+Chimerical My dreams of becoming

a professional basketball player are starting to become chimerical, though I still hold out some hope that I can be the next Jud Buechler.

+Effete After overindulging on Thanksgiving, I was

feeling quite effete and had a hard time even getting up off the couch.

+Poltroon I felt like quite the

poltroon when I got scared watching one of the Harry Potter movies, but come on, The Prisoner of Azkaban was pretty creepy.

+Proselyte As we learned in

our reading of Bede’s History, the pagan Anglo-Saxons became proselytes who converted to Christianity with a renewed hope in the afterlife.

+Quasi My wife is a quasi Bears fan; she says she loves

them, but I’ve noticed that she’s usually asleep by the end of the first quarter.

+Ribald Ribald comedians can be funny, but if they are

too offensive they might rub some people the wrong way.

+Vignette Almost, Maine, the fall play that was performed

last year at Kaneland, is a series of vignettes rather than one cohesive story.

+Fait accompli It is a fait accompli that you already know the

definition for this phrase; we already learned it this year and you are all so incredibly smart.