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English 4 .2
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolve | to clear guilt, or to free from a promise |
| Adumbrate | to foreshadow in an indirect way |
| Apothegm | a short, instructive saying |
| Aspersion | a defamatory expression: stander |
| Coadjutor | one who works with another, an assistant |
| Congenital | existing at or dating frame birth, being an essential characteristic |
| Elan | a lively spirit with a distinctive style |
| Germane | pertinent and fitting |
| Hiatus | an interruption or gap in space, continuity, or time |
| Immure | to confine within or as if within walls, to imprison |
| Ineluctable | not to be avoided or changed: inevitable |
| Internecine | marked by slaughter; mutually destructive |
| Invoke | to appeal to earnestly |
| Prototype | a person or thing that serves as an example of its kind - an original |
| Quadrennial | occurring every 4 years |