Vocabulary Drill

October 31: Halloween

anticlimactic · disappointing

avail · benefit

chaos · disorder

clique · group

cloying · sickly sweet

coherent · rational

conniving · scheming

copious · plentiful

covet · desire

coy · shy

debacle · disaster

dominion · power

emanating · originating

epicenter · precise center

fodder · food

gape · stare

gargantuan · enormous

garnering · gaining

imbeciles · idiots

imperious · domineering

indignantly · angrily

lethargically · lazily

loathed · hated

longevity · long life

minutiae · details

opulent · showy

palatial · palace-like

paradoxically · in contradiction

pugnacious · aggressive

repudiates · rejects

rift · split

sobriety · abstinence

sobriquet · nickname

spurred · prompted

stalwart · robust

stifle · cover

strident · loud

surmised · guessed

trifle · little thing

triumvirate · threesome

unbridled · unrestrained

vacuous · empty-headed

wielding · carrying

winsome · charming