EL 11/12 Unit C Vocab

to attribute something because of something else that happened (effect to a cause) (a text or artwork to a person who created it)

• ascribe

• commiserate

• tenuous

• vitriolic

an indirect or meandering path that takes longer to get through

• credulous

• circuitous

• seditious

• adventitious

to share another person's grief, to sympathize with or offer sympathy to someone who is in emotional pain

• tenuous

• proclivity

• commiserate

• ascribe

gullible: being to willing to trust or believe someone; especially without credible, supporting evidence

• tenuous

• nominal

• credulous

• vitriolic

referring to someone's role or status: in name only; an insignificant thing or small amount of something

• nominal

• circuitous

• credulous

• seditious

a tendency to choose to do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward an activity or talent

• ascribe

• nominal

• tenuous

• proclivity

causing others to rebel against authority, specifically the government or law

• ascribe

• seditious

• nominal

• credulous

literal: weak or flimsy

figurative: doubtful or not very strong

• tenuous

• circuitous

• adventitious

• nominal

happening by chance or accident rather than on purpose- usually with a positive result

• seditious

• vitriolic

• adventitious

• credulous

when someone is incredibly spiteful, critical or bitter in their language or attitude

• commiserate

• proclivity

• seditious

• vitriolic