American Lit Vocab 3

to make easy, cause to progress faster

• abominate

• commiserate

• expedite

• nominal

a natural or habitual inclination or tendency

• wheedle

• proclivity

• ferment

• ascribe

to have an intense dislike or hatred for

• inadvertent

• commiserate

• tenuous

• abominate

a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence

• ferment

• ascribe

• nominal

• wheedle

to assign or refer to (as a cause or source)

• expedite

• commiserate

• ascribe

• inadvertent

thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance

• nominal

• proclivity

• ferment

• tenuous

to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress

• abominate

• commiserate

• tenuous

• proclivity

resulting from or marked by lack of attention; unintentional

• ascribe

• expedite

• wheedle

• inadvertent

to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

• tenuous

• nominal

• wheedle

• commiserate

existing in name only, not real; to small to be considered or taken seriously

• expedite

• nominal

• abominate

• proclivity