Vocabulary Final

Define: cajole

• To persuade by pleasant words or false promises

• To criticize severely

• To decorate; elaborate

• A puzzle; a baffling situation

Define: colloquial

• Conversational; used in informal speech or writing

• Having exceptional insight; power to see or know things that are beyond the range of natural vision

• Lasting for only a short time

• hard to please; dainty in preferences

Define: derogatory

• difficult to overcome

• Changeable; fickle

• Tending to lower in estimation; degrading

• Having to do with the heavens; divine

Define: emulate

• To weaken, to lessen the strength of

• To try to equal or surpass

• To blame; to criticize adversely

• help bring about; to make easy

Select the part of speech: Celestial

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Select the part of speech: Clemency

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• adverb

Select the part of speech: Devious

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• adverb

Select the part of speech: embellish

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• adverb

Select the part of speech: fledgling

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• adverb

Define: catalyst

• A puzzle; a baffling situation

• Changeable; fickle

• Someone or something that brings about a change

• great warmth of feeling; intense emotion