11&12 unit 12 vocab words

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Unit 11 Vocab Words

Promoting good health

Salubrious*

Lacking respect for what should be worshipped

Impious*

Of or related to marriage

Conjugal

Possible; conditional

Contingent

A person who attacks or mocks things most people

believe in

Iconoclast*

Subjugate

To bring under control; to conquer or subdue

Inert*

Not having power to move; slow to act

To set apart as holy; to give up to a purpose

Consecrate*

Unable to be broken or removed; inalienable

Infrangible

Comfort or consolation

Solace*

A job that brings a salary or reward without requiring work;

a job in name only

Sinecure*

The right to vote

Suffrage

To settle a dispute or argument

Adjudicate*

Not causing harm or injury

Innocuous*

To pay or supply the money for

Defray

To divide by cutting across

Transect

Of or having to do with a sect; limited

Sectarian

To seek to be like; to admiringly mimic

Emulate*

Touching on one side; sharing a boarder or

boarders

Contiguous

To filter through a lens or medium

Refract

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