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Section 9 Word Group
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bemoan | to lament |
| contrite | feeling remorse or sorrow; repentant |
| despondent | hopeless |
| doleful | very sad |
| dour | gloomy; sad |
| elegiac | sad; mournful |
| elegy | a poem of lament for the dead |
| lamentation | an expression of grief |
| lugubrious | extremely mournful or sad |
| morose | gloomy |
| penitent | feeling sorry for past sins |
| plaintive | sad |
| somber | serious and sad |
| woe | sorrow; misery |
| baleful | deadly; harmful |
| baneful | poisonous; harmful; destructive |
| deleterious | harmful; injurious |
| jeopardy | danger; peril; risk |
| noxious | harmful to health or morals; injurious |
| odious | disgusting; offensive; hateful |
| pernicious | ruinous; injurious; hurtful; deadly or fatal |
| precarious | dangerously lacking in security or stability |
| virulent | extremely poisonous; intensely irritating |
| banter | witty or silly conversation |
| droll | dryly humorous |
| facetious | humorous |
| flippant | lacking proper seriousness |
| frivolous | silly; not serious |
| jest | to joke |
| jocular | joking |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| quip | a witty, funny remark; a joke |
| cognizant | aware of; having special or certain knowledge |
| discern | to perceive; to make distinctions; discriminating |
| discriminate | to differentiate; to make a clear distinction |
| fathom | to come to understand |
| illuminate | to light up; to make clear |
| lucid | clear; easy to understand |
| manifest | understandable; clear; evident |
| adherent | follower; supporter; a believer in a cause |
| buttress | to support; a structure supporting a wall |
| champion | to support; to promote |
| endow | to provide power or income |
| espouse | to advocate; to support |
| partisan | a staunch supporter of a cause |
| proponent | supporter |
| anachronistic | outmoded; a holdover from the past |
| antediluvian | old and outdated |
| antiquated | old and outdated |
| archaic | ancient; old-fashioned; outdated |
| obsolete | outdated; no longer useful |
| brazen | overly-bold |
| effrontery | a rude or overly-bold act or manner |
| foolhardy | overly-bold |
| rash | reckless; overly-bold |
| gauche | awkward and tactless; lacking in ease |
| inept | unskillful |
| lumber | to move clumsily and heavily |
| maladroit | clumsy and unskillful |
| assail | to attack violently and persistently |
| beleaguer | to surround and prevent escape; beset; besiege |
| beset | to set upon; harass; trouble; assail |
| besiege | to surround with an army; to cause worry or distress |
| exacerbate | to make more severe; violent or bitter |
| fulminate | to protest loudly and bitterly |
| grate | to irritate or have an unpleasant effect on one's feelings |
| harass | to annoy people through repeated attacks |
| incense | to make very angry |
| irascible | easily provoked or angered; irritable |
| nettle | to annoy |
| pique | to irritate; to displease |
| vex | to annoy |
| boundless | infinite |
| capacious | large; roomy; spacious |
| corpulence | obesity; excessively fat |
| plummet | a thing that weighs heavily; to fall straight downward |
| ponderous | very heavy; clumsy; unwieldy; dull |
| prodigious | immense; enormous; tremendous |
| voluminous | having great volume or size |
Created by:
Ms.Sherrie
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