Vocabulary Review Lessons 13-18, Book F

to set out on a journey or project

• precede

• scuttle

• embark

• curtail

• convene

to fall straight down, rapidly

• plummet

• secede

• convulse

• distend

• upsell

to shake violently or uncontrollably

• exhume

• convulse

• plummet

• distend

• curtail

deserving sympathy; wretched

• addled

• natal

• pitiful

• subtle

• oblivious

the accumulated knowledge, beliefs, and traditions of a subject

• realty

• exposition

• ordinance

• lore

• alibi

to block or interfere with progress

• censor

• abrade

• embark

• obstruct

• brandish

operated by liquid pressure

• retentive

• hydraulic

• infinite

• oblivious

• sheepish

an untrained person who pretends to be a doctor and treats patients

• realty

• seer

• vendor

• stiletto

• quack

neverending; unlimited

• equitable

• sterling

• infinite

• oblivious

• sublime

a humble request

• lapse

• proxy

• ploy

• plea

• brood