SWT Vocab 1

Choose the correct definition for the following words:

bibliophile.

• One who loves or collects books

• A place to put books

• A word of Greek origin meaning story of one's life

• A Bible

distend

• To stretch one's arms forward

• To spend time with

• A large marshmallow

• To swell or protrude outward

reciprocate

• To give back something in kind

• To pay for a bill

• To receive

• To find something nice about something

tractable

• Able to be located by a tracker device

• Related to the throat area

• Easily controlled

• Able to be inhaled

aspersion

• A villian

• To spread information to make someone or something seem bad

• To swell outward

• Relieved

ossify

• To act foolishly in a serious situation

• To bend and sway

• To become rigid in one's believes about something

• To seem one way but be another in actuality

nostalgia

• An illness involving the nose or lungs

• An illness involving the muscles

• Being unclear of an answer when asked

• A feeling of longing for the past

mitigate

• To call into legal question

• A circumstance you don't understand

• To make something less severe.

• A small opening in a wall

vindicate

• To show someone something to be clear

• To make one seem to be a villian

• To cause trouble or a riot

• To be proven right or not guilty

transient

• Utilized for a different purpose than originally intended

• Temporary, not lasting

• Clear, able to be seen through, like glass

• Very noticeable