Vocabulary test units 1-4 (college)

to besiege by encircling

• knead

• beleaguer

• entice

• elude

marked by a showy display; trying to show off

• licentious

• lackadaisical

• antiquated

• ostentatious

to escape notice, get away

• elude

• delude

• entice

• beleaguer

an exaggerated portrayal of one's features

• edifice

• blight

• paucity

• caricature

a slow person, especially one that falls behind

• laggard

• denizen

• caricature

• blight

an occupant, inhabitant

• denizen

• laggard

• blight

• caricature

no longer used or useful; very old

• egalitarian

• antiquated

• belated

• felonious

morally unrestrained; lacking morals or sound judgment

• ostentatious

• felonious

• lackadaisical

• licentious

delayed

• belated

• felonious

• elated

• licentious

anything that destroys, prevents growth, or causes devaluation

• blight

• paucity

• edifice

• laggard