Vocabulary Review 2

Anything that destroys, prevents growth, or causes devaluation:

• opiate

• caricature

• blight

• fealty

To attract by offering reward or pleasure:

• entice

• animate

• amalgamate

• dally

Personal appeal or attraction; magnetism:

• idiosyncrasy

• gaff

• entity

• charisma

To obliterate; to wipe out:

• mesmerize

• delude

• efface

• elude

A lover of books:

• denizen

• bibliophile

• numismatist

• mandarin

An influential person; a member of an elite group:

• mandarin

• denizen

• bibliophile

• numismatist

To resent another’s success; to envy:

• declaim

• obtrude

• imbue

• begrudge

Anything having existence; a real being in thought or fact:

• epigram

• entity

• opiate

• gist

A slow person; one who falls behind:

• chauvinist

• denizen

• laggard

• gambit

To please:

• gratify

• delude

• dally

• animate