Week 6
To start out; to begin
Embark
To suffer from to to be overcome by great heat
Swelter
To discourage or intimidate
Daunt
Able to hold a lot of space roomy
Capacious
A question
Query
To steal repeatedly small amounts or things that are of little value
Pilfer
A difference of opinion; disagreement
Dissension
Empty; shallow or silly
Inane
Not steady; irregular
Fitful
To give a title, nickname, or description to
Dub
To cause continuing anger or irritation
Rankle
To pass or slip by (used with time)
Elapse
A downpour of rain; a flood
Deluge
Light playful conversation
Banter
Lacking excitement; boring or monotonous
Humdrum
He had seen Eugene around and he thought him _________ and rather moody.
Lackadaisical
After he won the national chess championship, Kwame was ________ by his classmates.
Lionized
Nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, a ___________ of Charles Darwin, was the first to suggest that dinosaurs and birds were related.
Colleague
Her voice was barely ___________ over the noise.
Audible
Skiers __________ around the lodge's fireplace.
Congregate
On June 24, 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn and began arresting bar employees and __________ liquor.
Confiscating
The assistant principal will __________ the students involved in the fight to learn what might have caused it
Interrogate
She doesn't go in elevators because of her ________________.
Claustrophobia
She sat in the front row and took ____________ notes during the lecture.
Copious
Madelaine kept the sand dollar as a __________ of her day at the New Jersey shore
Memento