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spelling 11/21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avenge | to get revenge for, to punish someone or get satisfaction for a wrong or injury |
| cede | to give up; surrender; to hand over to another |
| deluge | a great flood; a heavy fall of rain; anything that comes in vast quantity (like a flood); to flood |
| discretion | good judgment; care in speech and action; freedom to judge or choose |
| giddy | dizzy; light-headed; lacking seriousness |
| impact | the striking of one object against another; the shock caused by a collision; to affect, especially forcefully |
| intimidate | to make timid or frighten by threats; to use fear to get someone to do (or not to do) something |
| liberate | to free from bondage or domination; to release |
| logical | reasonable; making use of reason and good sense |
| misrepresent | to give a false ro untrue idea |
| optional | left to one's own choice; not required |
| outright | complete; instataneous; without reservation, thoroughgoing; completely; instantaneously |
| rendezvous | to meet in accordance with a plan; a meeting by agreement; a meeting place |
| rotund | rounded and plump; full or rich in sound |
| saunter | to stroll; walk in an easy, leisurely way; a stroll |
| sluggish | lazy; slow-moving; not active, dull |
| subordinate | lower in rak or position, secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; to put in a lower or secondary position |
| tint | a delicate color or hue; a slight trace of somthing; to give color to something; to dye |
| variable | likely to undergo change; changeable; a value or quantity that varies; a symbol for such |
| verge | the point at which something begins or happens; brink; a border, edge; to incline, tend toward; to start the process of becoming somthing else |