TCRW: Chapter 16 Vocabulary

Overly willing to serve, obey, or flatter in order to gain favor

• obsequious

• omnipotent

• permeate

• retribution

• disparity

an inequality or difference, as in ages or amounts

• obsequious

• omnipotent

• permeate

• retribution

• disparity

something given or done as repayment, reward, or (usually) punishment

• obsequious

• omnipotent

• permeate

• retribution

• disparity

to flow or spread throughout (something)

• obsequious

• omnipotent

• permeate

• retribution

• disparity

all-powerful; having unlimited power or authority

• obsequious

• omnipotent

• permeate

• retribution

• disparity

to sugesst slyly

• interrogate

• insinuate

• insidious

• forestall

• opportune

to prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand

• interrogate

• insinuate

• insidious

• forestall

• opportune

to question formally and systematically

• interrogate

• insinuate

• insidious

• forestall

• opportune

working or spreading harmfully but in a manner hard to notice; more harmful than is evident at first.

• interrogate

• insinuate

• insidious

• forestall

• opportune

suitable (said of time); well-timed

• interrogate

• insinuate

• insidious

• forestall

• opportune