vocabulary test #9 review - 1st period

bilk

• a storehouse for grain

• to cheat; to swindle; to thwart

• moral deterioration

• ceasing to exist; death

homily

• a sermon

• lackadaisical

• decadence

• easily angered

demise

• horrible; frightful

• to send out; to give forth, as in sound or light

• to concoct; to make up a story in order to deceive someone

• a death; a ceasing to exist

emit

• to cheat of swindle; to thwart

• easily angered

• aghast

• to send out; to give forth, as in light or sound

decadence

• feeling great dismay or horror

• moral deterioration

• obtuse

• to hinder; obstruct

aghast

• happiness; felicity

• wretched living place

• extreme poverty

• feeling great dismay or horror

granary

• a means of going out; egress

• a dictator with absolute power

• of or like a corpse; pale; gaunt; thin

• a store house for grain

choleric

• easily angered

• feeling great dismay or horror

• relating to mysterious / grotesque; of the middle ages

• extreme poverty

impede

• a state of continual change or movement

• to hinder; to obstruct

• to prepare for an event or action

• to make afraid; to discourage

qualm

• extreme poverty

• to recommend; to speak in flavor of

• feeling of uneasiness

• to send out; to give forth, as in sound or light