English 10: Vocabulary Unit 11

serving to settle an issue; final

• guile

• conclusive

• placid

on or near the surface; shallow

• superficial

• clairvoyant

• fathom

not respectable, not esteemed

• exemplary

• obnoxious

• disreputable

a false reason, deceptive excuse

• potent

• pretext

• misconstrue

worthy of imitation; serving as a model

• stark

• endemic

• exemplary

powerful; highly effective

• potent

• placate

• reparation

to understand, get to the bottom of; to determine the depth of

• integrity

• guile

• fathom

to appease, soothe, pacify

• disreputable

• placate

• allude

honesty, high moral standards

• protrude

• pretext

• integrity

highly offensive, arousing strong dislike

• obnoxious

• superficial

• exemplary