Lesson 1 Vocab Practice (Definitions)

Sharpness or harshness of manner

• asperity
• garish
• doleful
• imbue

asperity

• destruction or ruin
• unruly
• unevenness
• provoke

a person or thing that destroys or causes harm.

• buffoon
• imbue
• bane
• rudiment

a clown;  a fool

• doleful
• bane
• buffoon
• rambunctious

full of sorrow; causing grief

• doleful
• penchant
• rudiment
• garish

a person whose attention is focused on others and on what is going on around her or him.  

• unremitting
• extrovert
• imbue
• buffoon

tastelessly glaring

• buffoon
• asperity
• unremitting
• garish

a group or system in which positions of power are ranked

• rudiment
• undermine
• imbue
• hierarchy

to inspire

• imbue
• instigate
• unremitting 
• penchant

to provoke

• repertoire
• rudiment
• instigate
• asperity