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English 1
Vocabulary 17-18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pariah | a social outcast |
| fluent | well-versed |
| cavort | to romp |
| pedagogue | a 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 | fovoritism |
| aloof | distant |
| gyrate | to rotate or revolve quickly |
| fiat | an offical order |
| fidelity | faithfulness |
| rambunctious | unruly |
| hilarity | joviality |
| genocide | the delierate destruction of a group of people |
| zaftig | having a full, shapely figure |
| predilection | partiality |
| faux | false |
| foray | a suprise attack |
| conjecture | guess work |
| allocate | to distibute |
| gratis | free |
| materialistic | wanting material possesions |
| belabor | overstress |
| progeny | offspring |
| quintessential | ideal |
| rudimentry | basic |
| monolithic | massive |
| manifesto | proclamation |