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Vocab 17 - 18
English 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pariah | social outcast |
| fluent | well versed |
| cavort | romp |
| pedagogue | schoolteacher |
| melee | a noisy confused fight |
| ensue | to follow as a result |
| desecrate | to damage a holy place |
| personification | a person or thing that represents an idea |
| bias | favoritism |
| aloof | distant |
| gyrate | to rotate quickly |
| fiat | an official order |
| fidelity | faithfulness |
| rambunctious | unrully |
| hilarity | joviality |
| genocide | the deliberate destruction of a group of people |
| zaftig | having a full, shapely figure |
| predilection | partiality |
| faux | false |
| foray | a surprise attack |
| conjecture | guesswork |
| allocate | to distribute |
| gratis | free |
| materialistic | wanting material possesions |
| belabor | over stress |
| progeny | offspring |
| quintessential | ideal |
| rudimentary | basic |
| monolithic | massive |
| manifeso | proclamation |