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vocabular 11
english 11 honors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Laggard | a person or thing that lags, sluggish |
| sage | a profoundly wise person |
| devout | devoted; person devoted to religion |
| enervate | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
| dearth | an inadequate supply; scarcity; |
| covenant | an agreement, usually formal between 2 or more persons to do or not do something specified |
| olfactory | sense of smell |
| appropriate | to take possession of |
| sanctimonious | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety |
| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame |
| Garrulous | excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner |
| Glutton | a person with a remarkably great desire for something |
| iconoclast | a person who attacks beliefs, as being based on error or superstition (rebel) |
| Pragmatic | concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical |
| virtuoso | a person who has special knowledge of skill in a field |