click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Vocab week 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Penury | Extreme poverty; destitution. |
| Waiflike | Resembling a thin, frail person who looks like an orphan or homeless child. |
| Deportee | A person who is being expelled from a country |
| Insinuate | To suggest or hint as to something indirectly or unpleasantly. |
| Emigrate | To leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. |
| Jubilant | Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph. |
| Sublime | Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration. |
| Surreptitious | Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of. |
| Conflagration | An extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property. |
| Partisan | A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person; also, a member of an armed group fighting secretly against an occupying force. |