**11th Grade Vocab Quiz 3

to involve deeply in an argument or conflict

• embroil

• poignant

• proclivity

• carping

deeply religious

• pious

• blithe

• lament

• orthodox

well-known for a bad reason

• infamous

• hiatus

• profuse

• boorish

to entertain or amuse with talk or storytelling

• regale

• bolster

• pontificate

• vilify

great enthusiasm

• zeal

• epicure

• winsome

• proclivity

to continually complain or find fault

• carping

• bristle

• temper

• goad

done secretly

• clandestine

• languid

• acuity

• precocious

affected by illness, bitterness, or resentment

• jaundiced

• impervious

• incorrigible

• pallid

to set free

• emancipate

• nullify

• espouse

• traverse

wandering from place to place; not setting down roots

• nomadic

• traverse

• maudlin

• prosaic