Vocabulary Unit 7

Students will be suspended for one week if they bring any ________ materials to school. 

• inflammatory
• pathetic
• illicit
• dissect

n. a person who has committed a crime or is guilty of some misconduct; an offender. 

• persevere
• fatality
• expend
• culprit

Syn: plug away, pursue
Ant: give up, throw in the towel 

• persevere
• memorandum
• dawdle
• expend

At the family reunion, we got to hear 94-year-old Tia Luzia __________  about life in old Havana. 

• relish
• reminisce
•  write
• dawdle

v. to make twisting or turning movements in a way that suggest pain or struggle

• quash
• testimonial
• relish
• writhe

Syn: utilize, consume, disburse
Ant: save, hoard

• memorandum
• gullible
• fatality
• expend

I find it's easier to ________ my entire body in a swimming pool than try to get used to the water more slowly. 

• immerse
• gullible
• authorize
• dawdle

V. to lie, tell an untruth; to mislead on purpose

• relish
• prevaricate
• testimonial
• writhe

syn: provoking, incendiary, provocative
ant: soothing, lulling, quieting

• reminisce
• scour
• testimonial
• inflammatory

I can't wait to _________ a frog in biology class next week. 

• dissect
• dawdle
• scour
• illicit