Vocabulary WW8-10+Review

Having terrible consequences; urgent or desperate.

• elite
• dire
• flagrant
• turmoil

To bring about or inflict.  To express or vent.

• wreak
• commemorate
• languish
• abject

A form of language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary.

• elite
• atrocity
• enhance
• dialect

A state of confusion or agitation; tumult.

• turmoil
• languish
• atrocity
• flagrant

To plead in favor of; to defend.

• advocate
• dire
• elite
• enhance

A group that enjoys superior status to others.  Considered superior to others.

• abject
• elite
• languish
• wreak

A group that enjoys superior status to others.  Considered superior to others.

• abject
• elite
• languish
• wreak

To level to the ground; to destroy completely.

• reprisal
• mute
• raze
• dire

To soften or tone down the sound of.  Not speaking or not able to speak; silent.

• mute
• reprisal
• languish
• dialect

To lose hope, strength, or vitality because of neglect or bad conditions.

• raze
• atrocity
• dire
• languish