Vocab Review #4-6

lacking interest or significance or impact; dull

• Insipid

• Tenacious

• Diffident

• Poignant

lessen the intensity of or calm

• amiable

• amiable

• allay

• munificent

strong and sharp, as a taste or smell

• contrite

• grandiloquent

• diffident

• acrid

regard with feelings of respect

• revere

• munificent

• naive

• transient

diffusing warmth and friendliness

• Poignant

• Jocular

• Amiable

• Formidable

Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large or intense

• Formidable

• Tenacious

• Brevity

• Insipid

Well-meaning and kindly; charitable

• Grandiloquent

• Conscientious

• Nefarious

• Benevolent

Decaying or rotting matter

• Putrid

• Acrid

• Allay

• Vapid

Affecting or moving to the emotions

• Nebulous

• Poignant

• Clandestine

• Robust

To throw overboard something from an airplane or ship

• Metamorphosis

• Evanescent

• Revere

• Jettison