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Adjectives
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Some Adjectives & Some Nouns
Verbs
Unit Three
100
affable
What is courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to?
100
insular
What is relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience?
100
sedulous
What is persistent, showing industry and determination?
100
reverberate
What is to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly?
100
abominate
What is to have an intense dislike or hatred for?
200
amorphous
What is shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character; without organization, unity, or cohesion?
200
irrevocable
What is incapable of being changed or called back?
200
sleazy
What is thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality or character; ethically low, mean, or disreputable?
200
repudiate
What is to disown, reject, or deny the validity of?
200
acculturation
What is the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend?
300
erudite
What is scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic?
300
querulous
What is peevish, complaining, fretful?
300
aura
What is that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality?
300
remonstrate
What is to argue or plead with someone against something, protest against, object to?
300
adventitious
What is resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential; (medicine) acquired, not congenital?
400
gossamer
What is tin, light, delicate, insubstantial?
400
resilient
What is able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly?
400
contraband
What is illegal traffic, smuggled goods OR illegal, prohibited?
400
infer
What is to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply?
400
ascribe
What is to assign or fer to (as a cause or source), attribute?
500
inscrutable
What is incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically?
500
scurrilous
What is coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed?
500
aggrandize
What is to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater?
500
circuitous
What is roundabout, not direct?