7th Term 2 Vocab Review

not letting go of or giving up on something one holds dear

• tenacious

• prowess

• curt

• maleable

writing or speech that is designed to mislead

• malarkey

• credible

• placid

• incredulous

to call up or evoke a memory, feeling, or response in someone

• elicit

• solicitous

• thwart

• loathe

emitting light

• luminescent

• noxious

• rickshaw

• incredulous

to hinder or prevent

• thwart

• incredulous

• cahoots

• harangue

very harmful; toxic

• noxious

• neophyte

• tenacious

• defile

great skill or expertise

• prowess

• neophyte

• affinity

• adroit

a thing that spoils or damages something else

• blight

• noxious

• placid

• malleable

unfortunate; unlucky

• hapless

• erudite

• tenacious

• incredulous

a statement that has been used too often to be interesting or meaningful

• platitude

• solicitous

• non sequitur

• malarkey