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English Unit 6
Vocabulry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atone | to make up for |
| bondage | slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| credible | believable |
| defray | to pay for |
| diligent | hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| doleful | sad; dreary |
| ghastly | frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
| hamper | to hold back |
| hew | to shape or cut down with an axe; to hold to |
| impoverished | poor; in a state of poverty, depleted |
| incessant | nevr stopping, going on all the time |
| inticate | complicated; difficult to understand |
| lucid | easy to understand, clear, rational, sane |
| posthumous | occuring or published after death |
| prim | overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish |
| sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficiant or required, excess |
| supplant | to take the place of |
| taunt | to jeer at, mock |
| tenacious | holding fast; holding togehter firmly; persistant |