Junior English Vocab Unit 2

Which vocabulary word means "to say that something is sacred or deserves the highest respect"?

• consecrate
• credo
• descrate
• supplicate

def: accept something
syn: agree, cave
ant: disagree, refuse

• acquiesce
• tenacious
• temerity
• deride

Very appealing and tempting

• tantalizing

• pungent

• stench

• olfactory

Which word means: Disgusting; detestable; hated?

• loathsome
• reek
• wayward
• dismal

Forcibly expressive.

• Cryptic

• Rhetoric

• Choleric

• Emphatic

to speak of or think of as unimportant; to put someone down

• belittle
• vast
• ratify
• behoove

Which word means to repudiate, reject, or scornfully refuse?

• spurn
• pittance
• homage
• preposterous

not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final

• flagrant

• grandiose

• penury

• condemn

• irrevocable

to relieve; make easier to endure

• alleviate

• speculate

• infamous

• covert

exploit

• to forget

• to take advantage of

• to be sad about