**11th Grade Vocab Quiz 1

slightly rude in speech or manner

• brusque

• trite

• boorish

• blatant

to make more pointed

• hone

• opulent

• bolster

• pontificate

espouse

• to support

• bolster

• vindicate

• embroil

extremely unpleasant

• odious

• trite

• pragmatic

• petulanc

posterity

• all future generations

• to support

• lacking originality or flair

• seeming reasonable or probable

nullify

• to make of no use

• showing a casual indifference

• lacking in vitality

• shining brightly

seeming reasonable or probable

• plausible

• tenuous

• lithe

• opaque

regarded as too important to be changed or interfered with

• sacrosanct

• espouse

• posterity

• pontificate

not able to be seen through

• opaque

• winsome

• saccharin

• blatant

to break a rule or boundary

• transgress

• traverse

• traverse

• epicure