ENGLISH 10 FINAL EXAM VOCABULARY

Greedy for wealth.

• Avaricious

• Deleterious

• Inevitable

• Tenacious

Irritated, offended, and so resentful.

• Fortuitous

• Serene

• Piqued

• Ominous

Rash, impulsive, acting without thinking.

• Insidious

• Impetuous

• Auspicious

• Deleterious

Harmful, destructive, detrimental.

• Deleterious

• Inevitable

• Lurid

• Diabolical

Determined; keeping a firm grip on.

• Brusquely

• Morose

• Exemplary

• Tenacious

Happening by luck; fortunate.

• Piqued

• Deleterious

• Fortuitous

• Pugnacious

Certain, unavoidable.

• Avaricious

• Inevitable

• Scrupulous

• Ardent

Suggesting that something bad is going to happen; threatening.

• Auspicious

• Impetuous

• Languorous

• Ominous

High praise.

• Deleterious

• Fortuitous

• Adulation

• Inevitable

Devilish, demonic, evil, wicked.

• Diabolical

• Enervating

• Morose

• Pugnacious