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Book 6 Lesson 1-8
Wordly Wise Vocabs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adroit | clever at dealing with difficult situations; adept; skillful |
| affront | to insult or to offend deliberately |
| affront | a deliberate insult or offensive act |
| avocation | an activity pursued for pleasure; a hobby |
| crusade | a prolonged, impassioned struggle for what is believed to be a just cause |
| crusade | to engage in such a struggle |
| definitive | supplying a final answer; conclusive |
| demeanor | behavior; bearing |
| erudite | having or demonstrating extensive knowledge; learned |
| induct | to install in office, sometimes with a formal ceremony |
| induct | to admit to a society or to military service |
| lapse | to fall or slip from a certain level of conduct or accomplishment |
| lapse | to come to an end; to expire |
| lapse | a minor mistake; a slip |
| lapse | a pause or interval |
| militant | ready to fight, especially for a cause |
| militant | one who is ready to fight for a cause |
| pariah | a social outcast |
| prodigy | a person who shows remarkable talent at an early age |
| prodigy | an amazing or extraordinary thing or event |
| protégé | one whose training or career is helped along by another |
| raucous | rough and unpleasant to the ear |
| raucous | boisterous and disorderly |
| tacit | expressed without words; implied |
| amorous | expressing love or the state of being in love |
| belittle | to present or speak of as unimportant or of little value |
| censure | to blame or find fault with |
| censure | a severe criticism or harsh judgment |
| deem | to consider; to believe |
| divulge | to make known something secret; to reveal |
| exorbitant | exceeding normal bounds; greater or more than seems reasonable |
| expostulate | to argue earnestly with another in an attempt to dissuade |
| fateful | having great or significant consequences |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| injunction | an order or command |
| injunction | a court order prohibiting someone from doing something |
| moribund | close to death; in a dying state |
| motif | a theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated |
| motif | a figure or design repeated in the decoration of something, such as a building or textile |
| sumptuous | extravagantly splendid or costly; luxurious |
| voluble | characterized by a ready flow of words; talkative |
| apropos | fitting the occasion; suitable or apt |
| ascendancy | controlling influence; domination |
| assess | to analyze and determine the nature, value, or importance of |
| aver | to declare positively; to state as the truth |
| concede | to admit to be true, often reluctantly |
| concede | to grant or let have |
| deficient | lacking |
| dogma | an unproven principle or belief held to be true |
| dogmatic | overly positive and assertive about something that cannot be proved |
| embody | to put an idea into a form that can be seen |
| embody | to make part of a system; incorporate |
| impart | to make known; disclose |
| impart | to bestow |
| oratory | the art of public speaking |
| orator | a public speaker |
| propagate | to reproduce |
| propagate | to cause to reproduce |
| propagate | to foster the spread of |
| proponent | someone who proposes or supports an idea; an advocate |
| rudimentary | not yet fully developed |
| rudimentary | elementary |
| sojourn | a visit or temporary stay |
| sojourn | to stay for awhile |
| vociferous | making one's feelings known in a loud way |
| callow | young and inexperienced; immature |
| contemporary | a person living during the same period as another |
| contemporary | existing or occurring at the same time |
| cynical | doubtful of the sincerity of others' motives; skeptical |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people |
| enunciate | to pronounce clearly |
| enunciate | to state, to announce |
| impediment | anything that gets in the way; an obstacle |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| impoverish | to take away |
| indolent | indulging in ease; avoiding exertion; lazy |
| sagacious | showing sound judgment; wise |
| secular | worldly; not connected with a church or religion |
| speculate | to think about or make guesses |
| speculate | to engage in a risky business venture |
| strife | conflict or struggle |
| venerate | to show great respect for |
| voracious | ravenous, desiring and eating a large amount of food |
| voracious | greatly eager |
| wane | to get smaller, dimmer, or weaker; to near an end |
| adage | an old saying that has come to be accepted as true; a proverb |
| camaraderie | good will and warm feelings among friends |
| contend | to struggle with |
| contend | to maintain or assert |
| contention | a conflict or struggle |
| contention | a point made in an argument |
| extraneous | not necessary; irrelevant |
| hubbub | noisy confusion; uproar |
| meander | to follow a winding course |
| meander | to wander aimlessly |
| odoriferous | having or giving off a smell |
| paraphernalia | personal belongings |
| paraphernalia | equipment associated with a particular activity |
| punctilious | careful of and attentive to details, especially ones relating to good manners and behavior. |
| recuperate | to regain health or strength |
| regale | to entertain or delight |
| sedentary | doing or requiring a lot of sitting |
| Spartan | marked by simplicity and lack of luxury |
| temporal | relating to the everyday world as opposed to that which is spiritual or eternal |
| wry | turned or bent to one side in distaste or humor |
| wry | amusing in a quiet but sharp way |
| allude | to refer to in an indirect way (used with to) |
| consecrate | to set apart as holy |
| consecrate | to dedicate to a cause; to devote |
| disseminate | to scatter or spread widely |
| dote | to show excessive fondness for (used with on or upon) |
| exhort | to urge strongly; to warn or appeal |
| feckless | careless or irresponsible |
| implicate | to show to be involved with something, especially something dishonest or illegal |
| lament | to feel or express grief |
| lamentation | an expression of sorrow or grief in the form of a poem, song, etc. |
| monetary | of or relating to money or currency |
| pensive | deep in thought; dreamily thoughtful |
| pomp | a showy or dignified display |
| stilted | artificially stiff or formal in manner |
| subjugate | to bring under control; to conquer |
| trauma | a severe bodily injury |
| trauma | emotional shock |
| wanton | ignoring what is right |
| wanton | excessive or unrestrained |
| wanton | playful or frolicsome |
| alacrity | promptness in responding |
| alacrity | eagerness |
| array | a large group of people or things |
| array | an orderly arrangement or display |
| array | to place in order |
| array | to dress up |
| deduce | to draw a conclusion from given facts |
| encumber | to weigh down or burden |
| encumber | to impede the action of |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| incontrovertible | impossible to dispute; unquestionable |
| inexplicable | hard to explain or impossible to understand |
| ingenius | marked by imagination, resourcefulness, or cleverness |
| laggard | one who falls behind others because of moving slowly or loitering; a straggler |
| sustenance | something that provides nourishment; food needed to live |
| torrid | intensely hot and dry |
| torrid | burning with passion |
| traverse | to pass over, across, or through |
| ubiquitous | appearing to be present in large numbers or in many different places |
| zenith | the highest point; the peak |
| zenith | the point in sky directly above the observer |
| bewail | to express deep regret or sorrow over |
| destitute | without resources or possessions, especially the necessities of life |
| destitute | lacking; devoid of |
| detract | to take away, especially from the value, beauty, or importance of |
| emancipate | to set free from slavery; to liberate |
| extol | to praise highly |
| flamboyant | excessively showy; unrestrained |
| impetus | a driving force; anything that causes an action |
| impetus | increased activity resulting from a driving force |
| insuperable | incapable of being overcome or defeated |
| intermittent | not continuous; happening at intervals |
| maxim | a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying |
| obligatory | required or demanded |
| plumb | to measure the depth of water |
| plumb | to reach the deepest part of |
| plumb | to understand by examining closely; to solve |
| plumb | straight up and down; vertical |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place |
| visage | a face, especially one that expresses feelings |
| wheedle | to coax by using sly persuasion or insincere praise |
| wheedle | to gain by using sly persuasion or insincere praise |
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