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Unit Two
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antics | ridiculous or unpredictable behavior or actions |
| avowed | declared openly and without shame, acknowledged |
| banter | to exchange playful remarks, tease; talk that is playful and teasing |
| bountiful | giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly |
| congested | overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess |
| detriment | harm or loss; injury, damage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage |
| durable | sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time |
| enterprising | energetic, willing and able to start something new;showing boldness and imagination |
| frugal | economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager |
| gingerly | with extreme care or caution |
| glut | to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing; an oversupply |
| incognito | in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; the state of being disguised |
| invalidate | to make valueless, take away all force or effect |
| legendary | described in well known stories; existing in old stories rather than in real life |
| maim | to cripple, disable, mar, injure, disfigure, mutilate |
| minimize | to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before |
| oblique | slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct |
| veer | to change direction of course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve |
| venerate | to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect |
| wanton | reckless; heartless, unjustifiable, loose in morals; |
| swerved | veered |
| tomfoolery | antics |
| wounded | maimed |
| ambitious | enterprising |
| thrifty | frugal |
| famous | legendary |
| anonymous | incognito |