Vocabulary Drill

Chapter Seven

amenable · agreeable

check · restraint

condescend · talk down

conspicuously · distinctly

derivative · copied

desiccated · dried up

deviant · twisted

dissipated · scattered

emote · express emotion

enthralled · captivated

evanescent · fleeting

exonerate · clear

exorbitant · excessive

extolling · acclaiming

forsook · abandoned

haughty · arrogant

hemorrhaging · bleeding

hiatus · break

incessantly · constantly

indefatigable · untiring

indescribable · beyond description

indigent · poor

indignantly · angrily

ineffable · beyond words

ineffectual · worthless

inextricably · inescapably

inhibit · prevent

inimical · antagonistic

inordinately · unusually

insinuating · suggesting

inured · accustomed

liability · encumbrance

mandate · order

manifold · abundant

nascent · new

noxious · poisonous

obscure · hide

odious · hateful

perfidious · dishonest

perspicacity · intelligence

pertinacious · headstrong

pillaged · looted

pittance · little bit

plaudits · cheers

plenitude · abundance

probity · fairness

prurient · lecherous

pulchritude · beauty

punitive · regarding punishment

quixotic · bold

railed · criticized

rash · careless

razed · flattened

recalcitrant · disobedient

reciprocate · exchange in kind

reconcile · settle

repentance · sorrow

rife · overflowing

scathingly · cruelly

scrupulous · honest

semaphores · signals

serendipity · good luck

serene · calm

solipsistic · self-centered

solvent · had money

spurious · contrived

strident · loud

surfeit · excess

tangential · peripheral

temerity · boldness

temperance · self-restraint

tenuous · weak

timorous · timid

turpitude · corruption

utterance · pronouncement

vacuous · unintelligent

vestige · sign

vivacious · lively