Unit 8 Vocabulary Crossword
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2) Praise or flattery that is excessive.
Adoration. Hero-worship. idolization. 3) Shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom.
Shrewd acute, sagacious, judicious. 5) Something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence.
Assumption, Presumption, Hypothesis. 6) tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt, intended to delay or postpone.
stalling, slow, tardy, laggard. 8) Done for show, striving to make a big impression. Claiming merit or position unjustifiably. making demands on ones skill or abilities, ambitious. 9) To make less, degree, to deduct, omit, subside, nullify.
Diminish. Decrease. Subside. let up. 10) Vanishing, soon passing away. light and airy.
Ephemeral. Transient. Transitory. 12) greedy desire for wealth.
cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness. 13) Conspicuous, standing out from the mass.
Glaring, flagrant, blatant. 16) Beginner at some activity that requires skill and experience.
Neophyte. Tyro. Trainee. Apprentice. |
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1) deserving blame worthy of condemnation.
guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy. 4) Cloudlike, cloudy colored, not transparent, vague, confused, indisctinct.
Hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, murky, opaque, indeterminate7) Inactive, sluggish, dull
Sluggish dull slow, lethargic, languid.
11) To revive, brink back to conciousness or existance.
Revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate. 12) object of intense dislike. a curse or strong denunciation.
Malediction. Imprecation. Abomination. 14) To review as a series of facts, to sum up.
Review, summaraize, sum up, go over. 15) Untidy, dirty, careless.
Unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax. 17) to speak or act in a way that allows more than one interpretation.
vague or ambiguous.
Palter, Hedge. 18) Unable to make up one's mind, hesitating.
Indecisive, vacillating, wavering. 19) Extreme Poverty. Barrenness, insufficiency.
Destitution, want, indigence. |
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