Vocab Unit 9, words 1-10

abate

• to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation

• to make less in amount or degree

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• deserving blame

adulation

• a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• an object of intense dislike

• praise that is excessive

• conspicuous

anathema

• an object of intense dislike

• praise or flattery that is excessive

• a greedy desire for wealth

• deserving blame

astute

• shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• vanishing, soon passing away

• to make less in amount

avarice

• praise or flattery that is excessive

• deserving blame

• to make less in amount

• a greedy desire for wealth

culpable

• deserving blame or worthy of condemnation

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• vanishing, soon passing away

• to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation

dilatory

• conspicuous, standing out from the mass (unfavorably)

• shrewd, crafty

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• vanishing, soon passing away

egregious

• conspicuous, standing out from the masses (unfavorably)

• shrewd, crafty

• tending to delay or procrastinate

• a greedy desire for wealth

equivocate

• an object of intense dislike

• vanishing, soon passing away

• to make less in amount

• to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation

evanescent

• shrewd or crafty

• vanishing, soon passing away

• conspicuous, standing out from the masses

• an object of intense dislike