Power Plus Vocabulary Lesson 14

To make abusive or slanderous statements about

• delve

• vilify

• rummage

• obliterate

• cite

the scientific study of earth's structure and history

• entrails

• abstinence

• utopia

• geology

• extortion

Beginning to exist or become noticeable; in an early stage of development

• callous

• ungainly

• pliable

• incipient

• tedious

Easily shaped or bent, in form or in mind

• mandatory

• tedious

• ungainly

• cynical

• pliable

A great quantity or amount; an abundance

• profusion

• annihilation

• requisition

• extortion

• diminution

Emotionally unfeeling; insensitive

• luscious

• callous

• incipient

• solemn

• tawdry

A metal shaft having multiple hooks, often thrown with a rope and used to climb

• virtuoso

• utopia

• buffoon

• grapple

• rebut

Total destruction

• annihilation

• diminution

• trepidation

• requisition

• extortion

To destroy entirely; to wipe out completely

• obliterate

• grapple

• rummage

• vilify

• delve

Tiresome due to dullness or length

• ungainly

• callous

• luscious

• pliable

• tedious