English 12A-1 Week 7 T1 2019 Voabulary

Barely sufficient or adequate

• Scant
• cleft
• Vex
• Disconsolate

Making someone seem less important or less deserving of respect.

• Abasement
• Prowess
• torque
• balk

failing to make progress or be successful.

• Languishing
• Scant
• cleft
• Vex

Endure; Tolerate

• Brook
• Abasement
• Prowess
• torque

express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavor or actions.

• Rebuke
• Languishing
• Scant
• cleft

a series of petitions for use in church services or processions, usually recited by the clergy and responded to in a recurring formula by the people.

• litany
• Brook
• Abasement
• Prowess

a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave.

• Bier
• Rebuke
• Languishing
• Scant

a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

• pyre
• litany
• Brook
• Abasement

praise enthusiastically

• extolled
• Bier
• Rebuke
• Languishing

without consolation or comfort; unhappy

• Disconsolate
• pyre
• litany
• Brook