End of Year Vocab Review 2

showing no emotion or reaction to pleasure or pain

• stoic

• zealot

• sad

more than what is necessary; repetition of words or ideas in speech or writing

• rudimentary

• redundant

• provoke

to anger; to stir up

• pester

• provoke

• tirade

the previous occupant of a job or position

• zealot

• neophyte

• predecessor

cheap, showy, or gaudy

• myraid

• tawdry

• prodigious

someone with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular belief or activity; a fanatic

• opaque

• predecessor

• zealot

beginner

• tyrant

• prodigy

• neophyte

to read carefully or study in detail

• peruse

• skim

• veracity

government based rule on absolute power or cruelty

• democracy

• tyranny

• militia

Sonora wished she'd had the ___________to bring bug spray before she and her friends went hiking through the bug-infested forest.

• aloof

• conundrum

• foresight

• misconstrue