English 9 Honors Vocabulary Quiz #5

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an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power

• Ambition

• Impropriety

• Foray

• Refrain

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an improper or indecorous act or remark

especially : an unacceptable use of a word or of language

• Ambition

• Impropriety

• Consternation

• Comprise

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noisily turbulent, rowdy, marked by or expressive of exuberance and high spirits

• Boisterous

• Itinerant

• Grotesque

• Wane

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amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion

• Boisterous

• Foray

• Consternation

• Wane

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to keep oneself from doing, feeling, or indulging in something and especially from following a passing impulse

• Wane

• Foray

• Comprise

• Refrain

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to be made up of

• Wane

• Foray

• Comprise

• Refrain

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an initial and often tentative attempt to do something in a new or different field or area of activity

• Wane

• Foray

• Grotesque

• Consternation

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traveling from place to place

• Wane

• Foray

• Itinerant

• Boisterous

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Fanciful, bizarre, departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical

• Refrain

• Impropriety

• Grotesque

• Boisterous

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To decrease in size, extent, or degree. To fall gradually from power, prosperity, or influence

• Refrain

• Impropriety

• Comprise

• Wane