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Vocab. Weeks 1-16
Vocabulary Words from Fix-it Frog Prince or Just Desserts. Weeks 1-16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Decorous | With proper dignity in conduct and manners |
| Drivel | Nonsense; meaningless talk or thinking |
| Folderol | Foolish talk or ideas; nonsense |
| Vehemently | Forcefully; with strong emotion |
| Inarticulately | Unable to express oneself clearly |
| Obstinate | Stubborn; inflexible |
| Courtiers | People in attendance with the court of a king |
| Prestigious | Respected; distinguished; honored |
| Mortification | A feeling of humiliation or shame |
| Queasy | Sick to the stomach; nauseous |
| Sever | Break off or dissolve; cut off |
| Diplomatic | Skillful, tactful in handling negotiations and other relations with foreign countries |
| Pompadour | Woman’s hairstyle in which her hair is raised over her forehead in a roll; a puffy hairstyle |
| Finickiness | Being difficult to please |
| Abject | Utterly hopeless; miserable |
| Consternation | Dismay; alarm; horror |
| Tractable | Easily controlled; manageable; willing |
| Gratify | Indulge; give pleasure to |
| Ubiquitous | Being everywhere at the same time |
| Blemished | Marred or spoiled by imperfections |
| Miniscule | Very small |
| Fretted | Felt worry or annoyance |
| Monarchial | Pertaining to a monarch |
| Trepidation | Alarm; trepidation |
| Twaddle | Trivial, silly, talk; drivel |
| Meandered | Rambled; took a winding course |
| Transpired | Took place; occurred |
| Copiously | Abundantly; plentifully |
| Throaty | Husky, hoarse; guttural |
| Tendered | Offered formally |
| Inquisitiveness | A state of active curiosity |
| Salvage | To save from loss |
| Benevolent | Charitable; kindly |
| Stipulation | Condition; demand |
| Dexterously | Skillfully (in using his hands) |
| Curtly | Briefly; to the point of rudeness |
| Wheezed | Breathed with difficulty and wheezing sound |
| Sumptuously | Magnificently; luxuriously |
| Forbearing | Patient and self |
| Hospitably | Treating guest warmly and generously |
| Deficiencies | Inadequacies; faults |
| Rejoinder | Response; answer to a reply |
| Expediently | To one’s advantage; out of self |
| Piteously | Sorrowfully; in a way that arouses pity |
| Audibly | Loudly enough to be heard |
| Resplendent | Splendid; magnificent; dazzling |
| Unstintingly | In a generous manner |
| Surmised | Guessed |
| Pretentious | Showy; pompous; self |
| Desolate | Uninhibited; dreary; gloomy; lonely |
| Oblivious | Unaware |
| Plummeting | Falling straight down; plunging |
| Bestows | Presents as a gift or honor |
| Sequestered | Providing privacy |
| Conjectured | Formed a theory; guessed |
| Unceremoniously | Abruptly, without ceremony |
| Fricassee | Meat served with a sauce (fish eggs only marginally count as meat, indicating poor cuisine) |
| Delectable | Delicious |
| Peremptorily | Without room for refusal; imperiously |
| Substantial | Of ample or considerable quantity |
| Inadvertently | Not intentionally |
| Inaudibly | Not audibly (not able to be heard) |
| Convalescence | The time of gradual return to health |
| Recumbent | Lying down; inactive |
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