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Language Arts Unit 2
Vocab words from Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions (synonym - pranks) | Antics |
| declared openly and without shame, acknowledged (synonym - admitted, sworn) | Avowed |
| to exchange playful remarks, tease (synonym - joking, raillery) | Banter |
| giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly (synonym - liberal, abundant) | Bountiful |
| overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess (synonym - jammed, packed) | Congested |
| harn or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss or damage (synonym - hindrance, liability) | Detriment |
| sturdy, not easliy worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time (synonym - long-lasting, enduring) | Durable |
| energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imgination (synonym - vigorous, ambitious, aggressive) | Enterprising |
| economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager (synonym - thrify, skimpy) | Frugal |
| with extreme care or caution (synonym - cautiosly, warily) | Gingerly |
| to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing (synonym - flood, inuundate) | Glut |
| in a disguised state, under as assumed name or identity | Incognito |
| to make valueless, take away all force or effect (synonym - cancel, disapprove) | Invalidate |
| described in well-known stories; existing in old stories (synonym - mythical, fabulous) | Legendary |
| to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate | Maim |
| to make as small as possible, make the least of; to makesmaller then before (synonym - belittle, downplay) | Minimize |
| slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct (synonym - diagonal, indirect) | Oblique |
| to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve | Veer |
| to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect (synonym - worship, revere, idolize) | Venerate |
| (adj) reckless, heartless (n) a spoiled, pampered person (synonym - adj. - rash, malicious) | Wanton |