Vocab 13 Flashcards
(25 cards)
(V) to adjust or change to suit conditions
Adapt
(V) to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine
Attest
(V) to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole
Dovetail
(N) a capentry figure ressembling a dove’s tail
Dovetail
(N) the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity
Enormity
(V) to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline
Falter
(N) a warning or feeling that something bad will happen
Foreboding
(Adj) marked by fear, omnious
Foreboding
(Adj)totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitful; almost hopeless
Forlorn
(Adj) chilingly proud amd scornful
Haughty
(N) a physical defect; a hinderence, obstacle
Impediment
(Adj) necessary , urgent
Imperative
(N) a form of a verb expressing a command; thst is necessary or required
Imperative
(V) to pretend illness to avoid duty or work; lie down on the job
Malinger
(V) to linger in an aimless way, hang around, dawdle, tarry
Loiter
(Adj) short but full of meaning and point
Pithy
(V) to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully
Plunder
(N) property stolen by force
Plunder
(v) to smile or speaker in a silly, forced way
Simper
(N) a silly, forced smile
Simper
(Adj) firmly fixed; constant, not changing or moving
Steadfast
(Adj) much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way
Vaunted
(V) to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously
Vilify
(N) a person (child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal, a stray bit
Waif
