Vocabulary Power Plus Book 1, Lesson 14

bloody and extensive slaughter

• obsequy 
• anachronism 
• carnage 
• decadence 

pale; faint in color

• effusive 
• rancid 
• pallid 
• desolate 

(Review) something or someone out of its proper time

• lackey 
• despot 
• aplomb 
• anachronism 

to make a god of; to look upon or worship as a god

• deify 
• feign
• declaim 
• lament 

an inscription on a tombstone; a brief comment about a deceased person

• gait 
• epitaph 
• benediction
• enmity 

trivial; silly

• frivolous 
• jaded 
• fallible
• kindred 

(Review) to stare with an open mouth

• emit 
• daunt 
• beget
• gape

to persist in talking continuously (on or about something)

• fester 
• lament 
• hone 
• harp 

a minor weakness in character

• foible 
• jargon 
• gist 
• blight 

of or relating to the side

• lateral 
• defunct 
• catholic 
• fallow