Chapter 1 Vocab
To damage, ruin, deface
What is MAR?
Formal; serious; sober; lacking humor or happiness.
What is SOLEMN?
Incorrect; wrong
What is ERRONEOUS?
A strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, esp. one that is irrational or contrary to one's will.
What is COMPULSION?
Distrusting, criticizing, or mocking the motives of others; pessimistic; glass half-empty mentality.
What is CYNICAL?
Quick & skillful
What is DEFT?
Weak, lacking power, vigor, vitality; wishy-washy
What is ANEMIC?
To determine; to make clear.
What is ASCERTAIN?
Showing or feeling disapproval or disdain toward something a person considers mean, vile, or worthless; scornful.
What is CONTEMPTUOUSLY?
Marked by caution, prudence, or modesty; subtle.
What is DISCREET?
Full of yearning or longing, often with sadness.
What is WISTFUL?
Liveliness; energy; spirit; vigor
What is VITALITY?
To beg urgently.
What is IMPLORE?
(n.) pride, arrogance, cockiness.
What is HAUTEUR?
Loud, harsh, shrill
What is STRIDENT?
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; cocky.
What is SUPERCILIOUS?
To yield respectfully in judgment or opinion to another.
What is DEFER?
Empty; lacking ideas or intelligence, stupid.
What is VACUOUS?
An indirect hint or suggestion about a person or thing, especially of insulting or offensive nature.
What is INNUENDO?
Lacking skill; awkward; clumsy.
What is INEPT?
Immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity.
What is INFINITESIMAL?
Never-ending; ceaseless.
What is INCESSANT?
To fill up, seep into; to saturate.
What is PERMEATE?
Disagreement; difference in opinion.
What is DISSENSION?
Sharply affecting the origins of taste or smell
What is PUNGENT?