Vocabulary Lesson 9

Sordid, miserable: very poor and run-down

• Gibe

• Squalid

• Stupor

• Stymie

unpleasantly loud; obvious or conspicuous

• buffoon

• ghastly

• bludgeon

• blatant

a show or pretense of defiance or courage

• Bravado

• Gibe

• Paucity

• Peerless

A person who eats to excess

• Sporadic

• Stoic

• Stupor

• Glutton

without equal; matchless

• Stoic

• Peerless

• Ghastly

• Gibe

a daze; mental dullness or apathy

• Stymie

• Sporadic

• Stupor

• Stoic

a short heavy object with a loaded end; or to beat or strike with a club

• bludgeon

• gibe

• glutton

• bravado

Keen; accurate understanding

• Peerless

• Perceptive

• Paucity

• Ghastly

A clown or jester; a person who is always trying to be funy

• blatant

• Buffoon

• Bravado

• Sporadic

Terrifying; dreaful; horrible to look at

• Ghastly

• Blatant

• Paucity

• Stoic