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Vocab9
VocabWords
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ignominious | adj. characterized by or associated with disgrace dishonor or shame; humiliating; deserving of disgrace; contemptible |
| prevalent | adj. accepted or used or practiced by most people |
| amenable | adj. readily giving in or agreeing |
| reverberate | v. to reflect sound; echo; bounce back and forth |
| circumvent | v. to manage to avoid or evade esp. by clever maneuvering; to go around; skirt; bypass. |
| intimidation | n. the act of causing someone to become frightened |
| derive | v. to receive or obtain from a source |
| discern | v. 1. detect with the senses; 2. to distinguish mentally;m 3. to recognize as separate or different. |
| warily | adv. in a cautious or watchful manner. |
| contradiction | n. the act of contradicting or the condition of being contradicted; a condition in which two things are in opposition to each other; inconsistency |