Vocab Unit 7

Definitions

100

A belief or teaching

What is a doctrine?

200

An indirect tax

What is an excise?

300

Smart or trim in appearance

What is jaunty?

400

To transport, or to make known or relay

What is convey?

500

To evade

What is parry?

Synonyms

100

Trait; characteristic

What is an attribute?

200

Hesitate

What is waver?

300

Bask; loll

What is wallow?

400

Plundering; Looting

Predatory

500

Quisling

What is a turncoat?

Antonyms

100

Bottom

What is acme?

200

Hale and hearty

What is haggard?

300

Lofty; elevated

What is menial?

400

Subdued

Tawdry

500

Spare

What is Ravage?

Fill in the blank

100

Some Asian flavors that were once seen as [this] have now become quite familiar to many Americans.

What is exotic?

200

When we came to [this place], a crucial decision needed to be made.

What is a juncture?

300

It will not make you larger to [do this] to someone else.

What is belittle?

400

A politician may be judged on how consistently they take [one of these] on various issues.

What is a stance?

500

In fairy tales it is often the youngest brother, with [this kind of] appearance, who ends up rescuing the princess.

What is unassuming?

Parts of speech

100

This verb means to remove by cutting.

What is excise?

200

This noun that means ruinous damage is often used as a plural. 

What is ravage (or ravages)?

300

This noun might refer to anyone from an ancient slave to a contemporary fast-food worker.

What is a menial?

400

This is a verb for what we do when we do not plagiarize.

What is attribute?

500

This noun could be used to describe a natural birdbath.

What is a wallow?