ENG 12 Unit 8

a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason

• compulsion

• susceptible

• disconcerting

• pretext

grievously affected especially by disease

• etiolate

• afflicted

• prosaically

• gratuitous

lasting for a markedly brief time

• fleeting

• meager

• inviolate

• jeer

make pale or sickly

• cunning

• obeisance

• etiolate

• virtuosity

humorously sarcastic or mocking

• pretext

• ironical

• afflicted

• jeer

doubt about the truth of something

• susceptible

• emanation

• virtuosity

• incredulity

laugh at with contempt and derision

• obeisance

• prosaically

• jeer

• compulsion

bending the head or body in reverence or submission

• inviolate

• cunning

• obeisance

• disconcerting

great technical skill, fluency, or style

• virtuosity

• afflicted

• etiolate

• emanation

crafty artfulness, especially in deception

• pretext

• prosaically

• fleeting

• cunning