Vocabulary Unit 12 Quiz

To elevate; to increase in intensity

• flair

• prognosis

• escalate

• inscribe

to pretend

• impel

• feign

• monologue

• scuttle

causing sadness to pain; serious

• grievous

• incredulous

• expedient

• repugnant

to force

• horde

• flair

• impel

• rasping

to sink a ship by cutting holes in it; to get rid of something in a decision way

• prognosis

• scuttle

• escalate

• heterogeneous

repugnant

• offensive, disagreeable, distasteful

• long talk by one person

• a vast number

• to pretend

prognosis

• to elevate

• to pretend

• disbelieving, skeptical

• a forecast of the probable cause and outcome

expedient

• useful, advantageous, important, necessary

• skeptical, disbelieving

• diverse, composed of different kinds

• a distinctive style; a natural quality, talent, or skill

horde

• causing sorrow or pain

• to engrave

• a long talk by one person

• a vast number

rasping

• a pleasant, melodic sound

• a person's natural talent

• a harsh, grating sound

• a composition of different kinds, diversity