Vocabulary Challenge 2.3.1

portentous; foreboding or foreshadowing evil

• ominous

• loquacious

• impious

• sanctimonious

to violate a command or law; to go beyond a limit or boundary

• transgress

• depravity

• deprecate

• capitulate

a corrupt act or practice; the quality or state of being corrupt or evil

• depravity

• deprecate

• desecrate

• castigate

to make little of; to play down; to belittle or disparage

• deprecate

• deride

• desecrate

• castigate

wise through reflection and experience

• sage

• ominous

• cantankerous

• impious

difficult or irritating to deal with

• cantankerous

• sanctimonious

• loquacious

• ominous

to laugh at or insult contemptuously

• deride

• castigate

• deprecate

• capitulate

full of excessive talk

• loquacious

• ominous

• cantankerous

• sanctimonious

clear to understanding

• lucid

• ominous

• despondent

• capitulate

to surrender, often after negotiation of terms

• capitulate

• desecrate

• castigate

• depravity