Vocabulary Column 1
Believeable
What is credible?
What is defray?
Hardworking, industrious, not lazy
What is diligent?
slavery, any state of being bound or held down
What is bondage?
To make up for
What is atone?
sad, dreary
What is doleful?
To hold back
What is hamper?
Poor, in a state of poverty, depleted
What is ghastly?
To shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to
What is hew?
to jeer at, mock; an insulting or mocking remark
What is taunt?
Synonym: sarcastic
Antonym: calm, nice
What is sardonic?
Synonym: surplus
Antonym: necessary, vital
What is superfluous?
Synonym: replace, displace
Antonym: allow, keep
What is supplant?
Synonym: ridicule, insult
Antonym: praise, acclaim
What is taunt?
Antonym: weak, yielding
What is tenacious?
Lincoln said: "Familiarize yourself with the chains of________________and you prepare your own limbs to wear them."
What is bondage?
A woman of strong character and noble bearing, she endured the jibes and___________of her enemies with great patience and fortitude.
What is taunts?
For thousands of years Native Americans used stone implements to__________________canoes out of logs and tree trunks.
What is hew?
I shall never forget the ___________sight that greeted us when we arrived at the scene of the car accident.
What is ghastly?
When the stock market collapsed in 1929, many wealthy speculators found themselves as______________proverbial church mice.
What is impoverished?
A student who is_____________and systematic in study habits will often do better than one who is brilliant but lazy.
What is diligent?
Although the survivors were still in a state of shock, some of them were____________enough to answer the questions posed by the police.
What is lucid?
I suppose bloodhounds may be as happy as other dogs, but they have the______________look of creatures who have lost their last friend.
What is doleful?
Saying "I'm sorry" is a good way to_____________for the suffering or harm you have done to another person.
What is atone?
I know that he will say anything to save his own skin, but I feel that in this case his account of the incident is________________and should be accepted.
What is credible?