Lesson 🔟vocab Flashcards
Advocate
To plead in favor of; to defend
One who argues for or defends a person group or idea
Atrocity
An act of great cruelty and wickedness
Very brutal wicked or cruel
Appallingly bad outrageous
Commemorate
To serve as a memorial to; to remember in a solemn manner
Dialect
A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar pronunciation and vocabulary
Dire
Having terrible consequences urgent or desperate
Elite
A group that enjoys superior status to others
Considered superior to others
Enhance
To make greater or better
Flagrant
Clearly offensive or bad, conspicuously acting against what is right
Languish
To lose hope strength or vitality because of neglect or bad conditions
Mute
To soften or tone down the sound of
Not speaking or not being able to speak silent
Raze
To level to the ground to destroy completely
Reprisal
A retaliation for an injury
Turmoil
A state of confusion or agitation tumult
Wreak
To bring about or inflict
To express or vent
Abject
Most miserable; wretched
