Vocabulary Unit 13 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What means to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity?
Attest
What means to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly?
Adapt
What means a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin?
Dovetail
What means outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness?
Enormity
What means to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, give away?
Falter
What means a prediction; portent?
Foreboding
What means desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance?
Forlorn
What means disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; superlicious?
Haughty
What means obstruction; hindrance; obstacle?
Impediment
What means absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable?
Imperative
What means to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place?
Loiter
What means to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one’s duty, avoid work, etc?
Malinger
What means brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression?
Pithy
What means to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc?
Plunder
What means to smile in a silly, self-conscious way?
Simper
What means fixed in direction; steadily directed?
Steadfast
What means praised boastfully or excessively?
Vaunted
What means to speak ill of; defame; slander?
Vilify
What means a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends?
Waif
What means produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features?
Wry
