Unit 9 Voc Amer Lit

VERB  to make less in amount, decrease, diminish

• abate
• dilatory
• nebulous
• culpable

NOUN  praise or flattery that is excessive; OPPOSITE of ridicule or scorn

• evanescent
• torpid
• pretentious
• adulation 

NOUN  an object of intense dislike; a curse; abomination

• anathema
• irresolute
• avarice
• pretentious

ADJ  shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

• egregious
• astute
• abate
• supposition

NOUN a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• penury
• recapitulate
• slovenly
• avarice

ADJ  deserving blame, guilty OPPOSITE of blameless and innocent

• novice
• adulation
• equivocate
• culpable

ADJ  tending to delay or procrastinate; stalling, slow

• dilatory
• evanescent
• irresolute
• anathema

ADJ  conspicuous, standing out from everyone else OPPOSITE of unnoticable

• torpid
• resuscitate
• egregious
• pretentious

VERB  to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; ambiguous

• equivocate
• nebulous
• astute
• novice

ADJ  vanishing, soon passing away; OPPOSITE of immortal

• irresolute
• supposition
• recapitulate
• evanescent