Vocabulary Workshop Unit 5 Test

(v.) To delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for a while

• refute
• tarry
• bungle
• bluster

(n.) Lit. - Judgment of guilty; fig. - strongly held belief

• facet
• remorse
• dearth
• conviction

(adj.) With a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe; rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time

• acute
• eerie
• headstrong
• smug

(v.) Stop or hinder

• desecrate
• despot
• deter
• denounce

(v.) To take one's time aimlessly, dally

• dawdle
• debilitate
• deleterious
• despot

(v.) Publicly accuse and vilify

• deter
• dearth
• denounce
• conviction

(v.) To make peaceful or calm; to soothe

• bungle
• tarry
• refute
• pacify

(adj.) Causing fear because of strangeness, weird, mysterious

• eerie
• duration
• ravenous
• synopsis

(n.) Lit. - Famine; fig. - Profound lack

• dearth
• deference
• desecrate
• despot

(n.) Ruthless dictator, tyrant

• dawdle
• dearth
• despot
• deleterious