Vocabulary Unit 9 Quiz

abate means...

• light and airy

• conspicuous

• to make less in amount

• indecisive

adulation means...

• excessive praise or flattery

• to be deliberately vague

• deserving blame

• tending to delay or procrastinate

anathema means...

• an object of intense dislike

• shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

• vanishing, soon passing away

• to revive, bring back to life

astute means...

• cloudlike, resembling a cloud

• unable to make up one's mind

• done for show, ostentatious

• shrewd, showing practical wisdom

avarice means...

• deserving blame, worthy of condemnation

• untidy, dirty, careless

• a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• something that is assumed

culpable means...

• an object of intense dislike

• to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

• to review a series of facts; to sum up

• deserving blame, worthy of condemnation

dilatory means...

• unable to make up one's mind

• vanishing, light and airy

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• cloudlike, vague

egregious means...

• conspicuous, flagrant

• vague, indistinct

• to speak one's mind plainly

• tending to delay, procrastinate

equivocate means...

• to revive, bring back

• to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

• something that is assumed

• unable to make up one's mind

evanescent means...

• cloudlike, vague, confused

• untidy, dirty, careless

• an object of intense dislike

• vanishing, soon passing away