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HVocab List 12 Shirk
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| germane | having a significant connection; pertinent |
| gem | vital, related |
| greg | group |
| gregarious | social; tending to associate with others of one’s own kind |
| mar | sea |
| marinate | to soak food (as meat) in a savory acid sauce to enrich its flavor |
| prim | first |
| prima donna | an extremely sensitive, vain, or undisciplined person |
| pyro | fire |
| pyre | a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite |
| clam | cry out |
| clamor | a noisy shouting; a loud continuous noise; insistent protest or demand |
| plu | more |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity; a quandary |
| tang | touch |
| intangible | abstract; incapable of being thought of as matter or substance |
| string | bind |
| stringent | marked by rigor, strictness, or severity esp. with regard to rule or standard |
| liber | free |
| libertine | a person who does not follow convention or morality, leading a dissolute life |
| junct | join |
| juncture | a point of time, esp. one made critical by a concurrence of circumstances |
| clud | close |
| cloister | a place (as a convent or a monastery) of religious seclusion |
| formidable | inspiring admiration, awe, or fear |
| guile | skillful slyness; craftiness |
| indifferent | having no interest in or concern for |
| entreat | to ask earnestly for; beg |
| avenge | to take revenge on behalf of |