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Unit 2 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antics | Ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions. |
| Avowed | Declared openly and without shame. |
| Banter | To exchange playful remarks, tease;talk that is playful and teasing. |
| Bountiful | Giving freely, generous; plentiful, giving abundantly. |
| Congested | overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess. |
| Detriment | Harm or loss;injury, damage;a disadvantage;a cause of harm, injury, or loss |
| Durable | Sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time. |
| Enterprising | Energetic, willing and able to start something new;showing boldness and imagination. |
| frugal | economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager. |
| Gingerly | With extreme care or caution. |
| Glut | To provide more than is needed or wanted. |
| Incognito | A person in disguise. |
| Invalidate | To make valueless, take away all force. |
| Legendary | Described in well-known stories; existing in old stories. |
| Maim | To cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate. |
| minimize | To make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before. |
| oblique | Slanting or sloping, not straightforward or direct. |
| veer | to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift. |
| venerate | To regard with reverence, look up to with great respect. |
| Wanton | Reckless; heartless, unjustifiable. |