Vocabulary Midterm Questions

Actions or statements that trick people into believing something that is not true

• chicanery

• discombobulate

• belie

• abjure

To weaken; reduce mental or moral vigor; to lessen the vitality or strength of.

• impeach

• belie

• enervate

• facetious

Speech that is meant to be funny but that is usually regarded

as annoying, silly, or not proper

• gamete

• belie

• enervate

• facetious

Having or showing a tendency to argue or fight; warlike

• comatose

• morose

• bellicose

• obtuse

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

an award or an expression of praise

• accolade

• angst

• euphemism

• gauche

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Damaging or harmful to the body or the environment

• bourgeois

• deleterious

• incognito

• ambidextrous

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

showing a lack of awareness about the proper way to behave: socially awkward.

• accolade

• incognito

• bellicose

• gauche

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

An expensive and wasteful project usually paid for with public money.

• anomaly

• boondoggle

• epiphany

• Laissez-faire

Not eating and drinking too much.

• diffident

• anomalous

• abstemious

• feckless

Indubitable. Not able to be doubted or questioned.

• feckless

• incontrovertible

• Laissez-faire

• diffident