Vocab 1
to free from tangles or complications
What is disentangle?
You will need a password in order to _____________ your email account.
What is access?
Spell the word that is defined as a group of people organized for a joint purpose.
What is
A S S 0 C I A T I O N
approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase
to get at, obtain
What is access?
The tragic outcome of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is ___________ from the play’s very first scene.
What is fated?
determined in advance by destiny or fortune
What is fated?
Political cartoonist like nothing better than to mock ____________ public officials.
What is pompous?
Spell the word that is defined as carry out (a task, duty, or role) as required, pledged, or expected
What is
F U L F I L L
overly self-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious
What is pompous?
Rescuers worked for hours to ______________ a whale from the fishing net wrapped around its jaws.
What is disentangle?
a very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster
What is precipice?
No matter how carefully you plan for it, moving to a new home is an ___________ chore.
What is arduous?
Spell the word that is defined as the state or fact of something's being likely; probability.
What is
L I K E L I H O O D
to run off and hide
What is abscond?
A vacation is a kind of ___________ from the cares and responsibilities of everyday life.
What is reprieve?
to attack with words, call bad names
What is revile?
The thieves who ____________ with several of the museum’s most valuable paintings have never been found.
What is abscond?
Spell the word that is defined as (of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.
What is
P A R A L L E L
hard to do, requiring much effort
What is arduous?
The enraged King Lear ___________ the daughters who have cast him out into a fierce storm.
What is revile?
very brave, fearless, unshakable
What is intrepid?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world hovered on the ____________ of nuclear war.
What is precipice?
Spell the word that is defined as the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
What is
P S Y C H O L O G Y
a temporary relief of delay
to grant a postponement
What is reprieve?
____________ Polynesians sailors in outrigger canoes were the first humans to reach the Hawaiian Islands.
What is intrepid?