ENGLISH 10 VOCAB QUIZ #1 (NOV. 2018)

greedy for wealth

• avaricious

• piqued

• deleterious

• tenacious

irritated, offended, and resentful

• piqued

• impetuous

• deleterious

• auspicious

rash, impulsive, acting without thinking

• impetuous

• deleterious

• diabolical

• lurid

harmful, destructive, detrimental

• deleterious

• diabolical

• ominous

• inevitable

determined, keeping a firm grip on

• tenacious

• deleterious

• ominous

• inevitable

happening by luck; fortunate

• fortuitous

• inevitable

• ominous

• avaricious

certain; unavoidable

• inevitable

• impetuous

• insidious

• auspicious

suggesting that something bad is going to happen; threatening

• ominous

• diabolical

• lurid

• languorous

high praise

• adulation

• adversity

• emulate

• prosperity

devilish, demonic, evil, wicked

• diabolical

• lurid

• languorous

• ominous