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HoConnz
English Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Faltered | Start to lose strength or momentum |
| Brambles | Thick thorns/vegetation |
| Eluding | Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way |
| Prevailing | Most common, most accepted |
| Reproach | The expression of disapproval or disappointment |
| Imparted | Communicate (information).....Bestow (a quality) |
| Connubial | having to do with marriage |
| Sadistic | Violent, hurtful, fondness of torture and pain |
| Raze | Destroy |
| Abated | (of something perceived as hostile or negative) Become less intense or widespread |
| Larceny | Petty Theft |
| Augmented | To make larger |
| Coquettishly | flirty |
| Surmise | A supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it |
| Sovereign | a person who has sovereign power or authority. |
| Carouse | To engage in drunken revelry |
| Fusty | Having a stale smell |
| Cynical | distrusting or disparaging the motives of others. |
| Demoralizing | To take away one's spirit and excitement |
| Promptitude | The feature of being on time, never late |
| Innumerable | Too many to count |
| Falsetto | High Male voice |
| Muffler | Scarf |
| Undertaking | To take on a task |
| Sinew | Tendon |
| Vagrancy | Mindless wandering, loitering |
| Trenchant | Clear-cut |
| Obstinately | Stubbornly |
| Plight | bad situation |
| Trifle | little, unimportant thing |
| Husbandry | Getting food from animals, agriculture |
| Temperate | moderate opinion |
| Hullabaloo | uproar |
| Agate | Decorative stone |
| Lurid | Horrid |
| Balk | Stop short |
| Chiffonier | Wardrobe |
| Grippe | Influenza, disease |
| Ostracized | to be kicked out or excluded from a community or group |
| Alloted | To share a portion |
| Fastidious |