click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Eng. 2 Hon List 5
English 2 Honors List 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flagrant | obvious, outrageous, glaringly bad; often paired with foul |
| egregious | remarkably bad; often paired with mistake |
| admonish | warn or reprimand someone firmly. |
| distraught | mentally confused, crazed |
| duress | compulsion, force |
| duplicity | cunning, trickery |
| culprit | the guilty person |
| acrimonious | bitter |
| inexorable | inflexible, unrelenting |
| paucity | scarcity or lacking |
| precocious | reaching maturity early |
| disparage | to discredit, belittle |
| perfunctory | done without care, superficial |
| laudable | praiseworthy |
| chagrin | feeling of disappointment, humiliation |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| perverse | contrary, persisting in error |
| masticate | to chew up |
| deride | to ridicule, scoff at |
| eschew | avoid |