Definitions
Having terrible consequences; urgent or desperate
What is dire?
Occasional
What is sporadic?
Simple
What is intricate?
The working student's attention was _______ by the noisy class walking through the hallway.
What is diverted?
Raise your hand if you have a ______ to ask the teacher.
What is a query?
Able to move quickly and easily; nimble
Able to think quickly
What is agile?
Mild weather
What is balmy?
Appropriate
What is unseemly?
The atmosphere in the stadium was _________ when the basketball game went into a third overtime.
What is tumultuous?
Definition:
Something that amuses or entertains
What is diversion? (n form of divert)
A basic food that is used frequently and in large amounts.
A U-shaped fastener with sharp ends.
What is staple?
Assigned
What is allotted?
What is reprisal?
The prospect of new opportunities in America led to an _______ of immigrants from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is influx?
poor:wealthy
humble:
What is elite?
An act of great cruelty or wickedness.
Appallingly bad; outrageous.
What is atrocity?
Miserable
Diminish
What is enhance?
The crew _______ in the row boat for 3 days awaiting help from the Coast Guard.
What is languished?
Definition: To level to the ground; to destroy completely
What is raze?
To bring about or inflict.
To express or vent.
What is wreak?
Confusion
Agitation
What is turmoil?
Opponent
What is advocate?
He planned to ______ abet the criminal by driving the getaway car.
What is abet?
Good: Excellent
Appalling: _______
What is atrocious?