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vocab week 10 sem. 2
vocab week 10 semester 2 mrs gabriel english 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| agnostic | believes there is no way to prove whether there is a god or not |
| blighted | diseased; sick |
| confide | discuss private matters or problems |
| digress | to ramble, to get off topic |
| dispatch | to send off or away with speed to a certain place |
| evince | to prove, to show something, to make it clear |
| forte | thing in which a person excels |
| intricate | having lots of details |
| plebeian | having to do with the common people |
| portly | fat and dignified |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or uncertainty |
| rampant | violent in action or spirit; raging; furious; wild (something runs________) |
| recalcitrant | rebellious (teacher finds harder to handle) |
| refractory | hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient |
| reiterate | to say or do again; repeat |
| replica | any close or exact copy of something |
| sapient | wise |
| sinecure | an office or position requiring little or no work |
| solvent | able to pay all your bills |
| tentative | unsure; uncertain; not defenite or positive; hesitant |
| trite | an overused expression |
| unmitigated | unqualified; not changeable (______ rules) |
| urbane | sophisticated |
| vehemence | a passionate, strong feeling |
| wistful | thoughtful and rather sad, longing for something with little hope |
| evanesce | gradually disappear |
| lexicon | vocab that goes with a certain group of people |
| vapid | dull, tasteless |
| unkempt | messy |
| iridescent | having the colors of the rainbow |