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Vocabulary Unit 13
brouhaha, cacophony, cavernous, exonerated, intermittent
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brouhaha - | noun/an episode involving excitement, uproar, racket, fracket |
| cacophony - | noun/a harsh mixture of sounds, noise, harshness, dissonance, discord |
| cavernous - | adjective/vast, huge, dark, hollow and large, spacious, gaping, huge, roomy, abyssal |
| exonerated - | verb/freed from blame, excuse, dismiss, justify, pardon |
| intermittent - | adjective/occasional, irregular, sporadic, periodic, seasonal |
| oxymoron - | noun/contradictory terms, turn of expressions, euphemism, metaphor, analogy |
| perpetuate - | verb/to preserve from extinction, keep going, maintain, satin, preserve, conserve, immortalize |
| scalawag - | noun/a badly behaved person, rascal, scoundrel, trickster, scamp, brat |
| tumultuous(ly) - | adjective/ riotous, confused, boisterous, fierce, hectic, raucous, turbulent, violent |
| vainglorious - | adjective/excessive vanity, boastful, proud, arrogant, boasting, snobbish, stuckup |