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Unit 5 Vocabul
English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aghast | Filled with Amazement,digust,fear,or terror |
| Ample | More than enough,large ,spacious |
| Apparition | A ghost or a ghostly figure;an unexplained or unusual appearance |
| Assert | To declare or state as truth,maintain or defend,put foward forcefully |
| Cower | to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame |
| Disdain | to look upon with scorn;to refuse scornfully;a feeling of contempt |
| Epitaph | a brjef statement written on a tomb or gravestone |
| Ethical | Having to do with morals,values,right and wrong;in accordance with standards of right conduct;requiring a prescription for purchase |
| Facetious | humerous,not menat seriously |
| Inaudiable | not able to be heard |
| Indiscriminate | without restraint or control;unselective |
| Intrigue | Crafty dealings,underhanded plooting;to form and carry out plots;to puzzle or excite the curiosity |
| Jurisdiction | an area of authority or control;the right to administer justice |
| Plausible | appearing true,reasonable,or fair |
| Plebian | common,vulgar,belonging to the lower class;a common person,member of the lower class |
| Prodigal | wastefully extravagant;lavishly or generously abundant |
| Proximity | nearness,closeness |
| Pulverize | to grind or pound into a powder or dust;to destroy or overcome(as through by smashing into fragmennts) |
| Sequel | that which follows,a result;a literary work or film continuing the story of one made earlier |
| Volitile | highly changeable,fickle;tending to become violent or explosive;changing readily from the liquid to the gaseous state |