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English 5-6 Vocab#10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Commensurate | (adj) corresponding in size or degree; proportionate |
| Divot | (n) piece of turf torn up by a golf club in striking a ball |
| Elocution | (n) style or manner of speaking in public |
| Expostulation | (v) to argue with someone in an attempt to persuade or correct |
| Garrulous | (adj) wordy or rambling |
| Interminable | (adj) being or seeming to be without end |
| Inviolate | (adj) not violated; intact |
| Libertine | (n) one who acts without moral restraint |
| Magnanimous | (adj) generous in forgiving; unselfish |
| Portentous | (adj) of the nature of or construing a sign of something; foretelling |
| Provincial | (adj) not fashionable or sophisticated |
| Superfluous | (adj) being beyond what is required or sufficient |
| Perdition | (n) Status of spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation |
| Attenuate | (v) to weaken |
| Gambol | (v) to frolic, leap, bound |