AVID 10- Final Vocab Review

Appraise

• to comment positively about someone
• to determine the value of something
• to celebrate a momentous occasion
• to have evil thoughts

Ominous

• to be everywhere at once
• to miss something deeply
• extreme confidence
• foretelling of evil

Advocate

• to speak in favor of
• to blame for a wrongdoing
• feelings of guilt
• the ability to persuade

Enigma

• someone in good spirits
• something that puzzles
• to lessen in intensity
• to give in to; appease

Trite

• overused or common sayings
• to support
• irresponsible with money
• to support or strength

Inherent

• to receive a financial sum after someone dies
• to be keenly aware
• naturally occurring within someone/something
• the spreading of information

disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant

• ambivalent
• haughty
• augment
• lament

any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs,customs, etc.

• heresy
• esoteric
• affable
• miserly

having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action

• prolific
• scrupulous
• vindicate
• ambivalent

happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional

• sporadic
• justify
• despondent
• mitigate