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English Vocabulary · Grade 11 Live Review Preview

11th Grade Vocabulary Words

Eleventh-grade readers work across complex arguments, literary forms, scientific models, quantitative reasoning, civic institutions, social analysis, and precise academic prose. This level emphasizes disciplinary meanings, source evaluation, rhetorical and linguistic analysis, transparent morphology, and the careful use of context and reference tools when a word has several possible senses.

This independently authored 800-word beta curriculum is arranged in twenty-three pages of up to thirty-five words. Pages containing words 1–500 include five cloze questions drawn only from that enhanced range; words 501–800 remain fully visible and editable as list pages while expanded practice is developed. Every row includes an editable subject-field label and a conservative word-study note about transparent affixes, compound structure, capitalization, or dictionary base forms. The cited sources calibrate range and difficulty only; all learner-facing definitions, examples, quizzes, and descriptions are original KSSR copy.

Please note: the vocabulary lists for grades 9~11 have been selected to ensure no overlap with the previous grade level. If the words are too specialized or difficult for you, please go back to grade levels 4~8 and review the words on those pages.

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176calquenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: calque is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

번역차용(翻譯借用)“Flea market” has produced a calque in several languages.
177bathosnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: bathos is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 급격한 격조 저하 2. 점강법The heroic speech ends in bathos when the warrior complains about his lunch.
178heteroglossianoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: heteroglossia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 이질언어성 2. 다중언어성The novel's heteroglossia brings official, regional, and rebellious speech into conflict.
179dialogismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.

대화Dialogism prevents the novel from granting one character final authority.
180carnivalesqueadjective
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: carnivalesque is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

카니발풍의The carnivalesque festival lets servants mock their masters.
181liminalitynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.

경계성The journey creates liminality as the initiate leaves childhood but has not entered adulthood.
182paratextnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: paratext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

파라텍스트The title and cover form a paratext that frames the novel as a mystery.
183peritextnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: peritext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

주변 텍스트The preface and footnotes belong to the book's peritext.
184epitextnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: epitext is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

에피텍스트An author's interview can function as epitext for readers of the novel.
185textual apparatusnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: textual + apparatus. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

1. 본문 비평 장치 2. 교감 장치The textual apparatus explains why the editor chose one manuscript reading.
186variorumnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: variorum is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 이본 대조판 2. 주석 이본판The variorum lists alternate lines from every surviving draft.
187emendationnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ation commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.

교정The emendation restores a word blurred in the earliest printing.
188recensionnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -sion commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.

1. 계통 판본 2. 교정 판본The northern recension includes a chapter absent from other manuscripts.
189metalepsisnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: metalepsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 메타렙시스 2. 서사 층위 침범Metalepsis occurs when the author suddenly argues with her own character.
190chronotopenoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: chronotope is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

크로노토프The road chronotope makes travel the setting for meetings and change.
191polyphonynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: polyphony is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 다성성 2. 복수 목소리의 공존The novel's polyphony allows each sibling to challenge the family history.
192monoglossianoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: monoglossia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

모노글로시아The decree's monoglossia permits no alternative account of the event.
193intermedialitynoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.

1. 상호매체성 2. 매체 간 상호작용The production's intermediality combines live theater, film, and projected text.
194ecocriticismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.

생태비평Ecocriticism reveals how the poem treats the river as more than scenery.
195postcolonialismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.

탈식민주의Postcolonialism guides the essay's analysis of imposed place names.
196reader-response criticismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: reader + response + criticism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

독자 반응 비판Reader-response criticism compares how two communities interpret the ending.
197new historicismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Term structure: new + historicism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

새로운 역사주의New historicism places the play beside court records and travel accounts.
198poststructuralismnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.

포스트구조주의Poststructuralism draws attention to contradictions within the category of “civilized.”
199semioticsnoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: semiotics is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

기호학Semiotics examines how color and clothing signal authority in the film.
200signifiernoun
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Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term

Word study: Base-form focus: signifier is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

기표The red light is a signifier whose meaning depends on the traffic system.
201anatomical positionnoun
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Term structure: anatomical + position. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

해부학적 위치In anatomical position, the palms face forward and the feet point ahead.
202sagittal planenoun
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Term structure: sagittal + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

시상면A sagittal plane passes from the front of the body to the back.
203coronal planenoun
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Term structure: coronal + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

관상면The coronal plane separates anterior structures from posterior ones.
204transverse planenoun
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Term structure: transverse + plane. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.

횡단면The scan shows a transverse plane through the abdomen.
205proximaladjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: proximal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

근위부The elbow is proximal to the wrist.
206distaladjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: distal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

원위The fingers are distal to the shoulder.
207medialadjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: medial is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

내측The sternum is medial to the ribs.
208lateraladjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: lateral is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 외측의 2. 몸의 정중선에서 먼The lungs are lateral to the heart.
209ventraladjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: ventral is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 복측의 2. 배쪽의The ventral surface of the human body includes the chest.
210dorsaladjective
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Field: Grade 11 anatomy, neuroscience, and public-health term

Word study: Base-form focus: dorsal is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.

1. 배측의 2. 등쪽의The spinal cord lies within the dorsal body cavity.

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