Unit 7 Vocab

Question 0

What does amend mean?

Answer 0

To change in a formal way; to change for the better

Question 1

Abhor

Answer 1

To regard with horror or loathing; to hate deeply

Question 2

(V.) To slap or cuff; to slap repeatedly; to drive or force with blows; to force ones way with difficulty

(N.) a slap, blow

Answer 2

Buffet

Question 3

Chaos

Answer 3

Great confusion

Question 4

What does it mean for something to be commodious?

Answer 4

Roomy, spacious

Question 5

If you are corrosive you are ________________.

Answer 5

Eating away gradually, acid like; bitterly sarcastic

Question 6

To see clearly, recognize

Answer 6

Discern

Question 7

Extant

Answer 7

Still existing; not exterminated, destroyed, or lost

Question 8

What does it mean to implicate something?

Answer 8

To involve in; to connect with or be related to

Question 9

Inter

Answer 9

To bury, commit to earth; consign to oblivion

Question 10

A strict disciplinarian; a stickler for the rules

Answer 10

Martinet

Question 11

What do you do when you obviate?

Answer 11

To anticipate and prevent; to remove, dispose of

Question 12

(N.) one who leaves a group; a deserter, outlaw

(Adj.) traitorous; unconventional, unorthodox

Answer 12

Renegade

Question 13

Reprehensible

Answer 13

Deserving blame or punishment

Question 14

Somber

Answer 14

Dark, gloomy; depressed or melancholy in spirit

Question 15

To be squalid is to be __________.

Answer 15

Filthy, wretched, debased

Question 16

Turbulent means ___________.

Answer 16

Disorderly, riotous, violent; stormy

Question 17

Vociferous

Answer 17

Loud and noisy, compelling attention

Question 18

Of great size; numerous writing or speaking at great length

Answer 18

Voluminous

Question 19

Waive

Answer 19

To do without, give up voluntarily; to put off temporarily, defer