Jenkins Vocabulary Unit 14 Definitions 12th grade level G
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beatific | adj. blissful, rendering or making blessed
🗑
|
||||
| Behemoth | n. a creature of enormous size, power, or appearance
🗑
|
||||
| Blandishment | n. anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple polishing
🗑
|
||||
| Cacophonous | adj.harsh sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
🗑
|
||||
| Chicanery | n. trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double dealing
🗑
|
||||
| Consign | v. to give over to another's care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use
🗑
|
||||
| Coup | n. a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan, or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership
🗑
|
||||
| Euphemism | n. a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one, a substitute
🗑
|
||||
| Febrile | adj. feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic
🗑
|
||||
| Gainsay | v. to deny, contradict, controvert, to dispute, oppose
🗑
|
||||
| Imminent | adj. about to happen; threatening
🗑
|
||||
| Innate | adj. natural, inborn, inherent, built-in
🗑
|
||||
| Loath | adj. unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
🗑
|
||||
| Manifest | adj. clear, evident to the eyes or mind; v. to show plainly, exhibit, evince; n. a list of cargo and/or passengers
🗑
|
||||
| Minutiae | n. small or trivial details, trifling matters
🗑
|
||||
| Moratorium | n. a suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay
🗑
|
||||
| Nostrum | n. an alleged cure-all, a remedy or scheme or questionable effectiveness
🗑
|
||||
| Pariah | n. one who is rejected by a social group or organization
🗑
|
||||
| Visionary | adj. not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; n. one given to far fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight
🗑
|
||||
| Wizened | adj. dry shrunken and wrinkled (often as a result of aging)
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
ahatch
Popular Stadlier Oxford Voca sets