Vocab. - Level C Word Scramble
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Vocab. - Level C | Unit 13 |
adapt | (v.) to adjust or change to suit conditions |
attest | (v.) to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine |
dovetail | (v.) to fit togethr exactly; to connect so as to form a whole; (n.)a carpentry figure resembling a dove's tail |
enormity | (n.) the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity |
falter | (v.) to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline |
foreboding | (n.) a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; (adj.) marked by fear, ominous |
forlorn | (adj.) totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless |
haughty | (adj.) chillingly proud and scornful |
impediment | (n.) a physical detect; a hindrance, obstacle |
imperative | (adj.) necessary, urgent; (n.) a form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required |
loiter | (v.) to linger in an aimless way; hang around, dawdle; tarry |
malinger | (v.) to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job |
pithy | (adj.) short but full of meaning and point |
plunder | (v.) to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; (n.) property stolen by force |
simper | (v.) to smile or speak in a silly, forced way; (n.) a silly, forced smile |
steadfast | (adj.) firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing |
vaunted | (adj.) much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way |
vilify | (v.) to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously |
waif | (n.) a person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit |
wry | (adj.) twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humerous |
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