Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
Verbal praise or an award given for an accomplishment
What is an accolade
100
To avoid wasteful spending
What is frugal?
100
A reference to another literary work.
What is an allusion
100
This compares two like things.
What is an analogy?
100
An overused expression.
What is a cliche?
200
An intense feeling of dislike.
What is disdain?
200
An evil ruler or tyrant behaves in this manner.
What is despotic?
200
This person would be unpredictable and fickle. A synonym of impetuous.
What is capricious?
200
To move off track from the course.
What is derailed?
200
One who believes in the equality of all people.
What is an egalitarian?
300
This is not important and lacks worth.
What is inconsequential?
300
Flowery language or rosy cheeks.
What is florid?
300
To partially excuse or justify an act.
What is extenuating?
300
Twisted spirals or coiled together.
What is convoluted?
300
Formed or developed from something else; not original
What is a derivative?
400
To attribute responsibility or fault to a cause or a source.
What is to impute?
400
A synonym of arrogance or stobbiness
What is haughty?
400
To last for a very short time
What is ephemeral?
400
Obtained through intuition rather than reasoning.
What is an intuition?
400
Slanderous, not denunciation.
What is an aspersion?
500
The man who wins the lottery when he is down on his luck.
What is fortuitous?
500
It is a way the teacher speaks when she wants to clarify information.
What is explicitly?
500
When something cannot be proven wrong.
What is irrefutable?
500
A lady who is clumsy in high heels might be; a literary student who tries to do calculus might also be.
What is inept?
500
The drunken man, the fighter in the lunchroom, and the irate parent might be
What is belligerent?
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