Vocab U6

Question 1

Blithe

Answer 1

— adjective
- lacking due thought or consideration : Casual, heedless
- of a happy lighthearted character or disposition
- My friend Chloe has an extremely blithe spirit cheering up everyone’s day.
- My brother is very blithe when it comes to giving presents and often my mother picks them for him.

Question 2

Devoid

Answer 2

— adjective
- being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
- When watching a movie, I like it when the room is devoid of all light because the images are easier to see.

Question 3

Effete

Answer 3

— adjective
- no longer fertile
- having lost character, vitality, or strength
- marked by weakness or decadence
- soft or delicate from or as if from a pampered existence
- At the end of novels the villains often become effete because the hero wins defeating them.
- In some Hallmark movies the rich effete boy or girl is sent to some small town as a punishment and think it’s the end of the world when in reality it isn’t that horrible.

Question 4

Entreat

Answer 4

— verb
Transitive verb
- to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently
intransitive verb
- to make an earnest request : plead
- Whenever something is on sale I entreat my mom asking if I can get it because there is a higher chance of her saying yes.
- My brother often entreats my parents asking for more time on the ipad or computer even though they often say no.

Question 5

Flout

Answer 5

—verb and noun
transitive verb
- to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn
intransitive verb
- to indulge in scornful behavior
- Whenever I see trailers for the tv show Ginny and Georgia I never want to watch it because Ginny, Georgia’s daughter, often flouts her mother even though she has worked extremely hard to give Ginny the life she never had.
- Many of the mothers on tv shows such as Tiaras and toddlers flout their daughters allowing them to act in a way that would’ve gotten me in trouble.
- N: jeer
- a mocking and insulting remark or sound
- In Mean Girls, character Regina George makes many flouts to other students because she is the mea and popular girl.

Question 6

Grimace

Answer 6

— noun and verb
- N:a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain
- Often in novels whenever a character gets hurt the word grimace is used to describe their facial expressions.
- V: to distort one’s face in an expression usually of pain, disgust, or disapproval
- Whenever my brother gets hurt he grimaces or cries even if he just stubs his toe.

Question 7

Poignant

Answer 7

— adjective
- painfully affecting the feelings : piercing
- deeply affecting : touching
- designed to make an impression : cutting
- pleasurably stimulating
- being to the point : apt
- pungently pervasive
- Sally was going through her attic and found old photographs of when she was a child, bringing up poignant memories.
- Fred still has poignant memories of when he broke up with his girlfriend Sally.

Question 8

Resilient

Answer 8

— adjective
- characterized or marked by resilience: such as
- capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture
- tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change
- The hero of a movie is supposed to be resilient, not letting anything knock them down.
- Sarah was extremely resilient when her house got robbed and instead looked to the bright side and acquired new items that would better her life.

Question 9

Tranquil

Answer 9

— adjective
- free from agitation of mind or spirit
- free from disturbance or turmoil
- When Sally works on her puzzle she is extremely tranquil and often watches movies in the background.

Question 10

Sordid

Answer 10

— adjective
- marked by baseness or grossness : vile
- dirty, filthy
- wretched, squalid
- meanly avaricious : covetous
- of a dull or muddy color
- My basement is extremely sordid because it is unfinished and water often leaks down there when there is a huge storm.
- During the middle ages in Europe many of the streets were sordid, filled with vermin, corpses, and disease.