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Eng 1
Vocab 17-18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pariah | a social outcast |
| fluent | well-versed |
| cavort | to romp |
| pedagogue | a schoolteacher |
| melee | a noisy, confused fight |
| ensure | to follow as a result |
| personification | a person or thing that represents an idea |
| bias | favoritism |
| aloof | distant |
| gyrate | to rotate quickly |
| fiat | an official order |
| fidelitiy | faithfulness |
| rambunctious | uncontrollble |
| hilarity | glee |
| genocide | the deliberate destruction of a grouup of people |
| zaftig | hving a full, shapely figure |
| predilection | a preference toward someone or something |
| faux | artificial |
| foray | a suprise attack |
| conjecture | a judgment or opinion bsed on little or questionable evidence |
| allocate | to distribute |
| graris | free |
| materialistic | wanting mterial possessoions |
| belabor | to overstress |
| progeny | children |
| quimtiessential | typical |
| rudimentary | basic |
| monolithic | massive, uniform, and solid |
| manifesto | a public declaration of policies or intenions |