humiliated, pernicious, vitiate, resolute, pedantic, eminent, indolent, sympathize impugn, proficient, complacent, complaisant, pejorative, punctilious, inexorable, iconoclast, fervor, deference, obstreperous, tangible, surreptitious, merriment, mercantilism, legislature, bicameral, inveigh, sovereignty, sectionalism, infraction, prudent, transient, usurp, despot, candid/candor, relinquish, dissolution, appropriate, abdicate, nefarious, laud, facetious, perfidy, magnanimous/magnanimity, acquiesce, absolve, demagogue, plebeian, espouse, judicious, increment, genre, kinetic, harbinger, nepotism, querulous, altruism, mortify, chagrin, ameliorate, recrimination, turpitude, relegate, sardonic, laud, facetious, juxtapose, nefarious, paroxysm, posterity, ordain, redress, prescribed, ascertained, oblique, futile, vindictive, efface, diffident, vociferous, blithe, acute, insolent, ardent, extricate, accost, zealous, quixotic, wanton, nefarious, guile, facetious, gravity, juxtapose, laud, ubiquitous, abridge, construe, disparage, infamous, disdain, indignant, impotent, oblivion/oblivious, profane, proximity, perturb, address (verb), reproach, adroit, opulent, axiom, aristocratic, insatiable, stoic, delude, felicity, consecrate, histrionic, sophomoric, innocuous, innate, empirical, microcosm, milieu, microcosm, hiatus, sanguine, wistful, redolent, profess, proletariat, obsequious, encroach, irascible, subtle, affluent, periphery, sublime, ironic, volition, ostensible, incongruous, nostalgia, amorphous, poignant, imminent, degenerate, stoic, caricature

Common Usage Errors: all right; among/between; anxious; as far as ...is concerned; as/like; biweekly (etc.); can/may; capital/capitol; common/mutual; commonplace; compare to/compare with; equally as; each other/one another; fewer/less; different from; fact that/that; farther/further; former/latter; irregardless; lay/lie; plurals & singulars; presently; stationary/stationery; that/which; whether or not

GRAMMAR terms -- you must know these definitions, too:
noun, verb, adjective, adverb, article
VERBS OF BEING (memorize them) -- am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

POETRY terms & techniques -- know what these are & how to use them in your poetry & prose:
simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, homophone, personification, hyperbole