Vocab Lesson 6 10th grade words

DEF: having a bad odor

• gauche

• maudlin

• venal

• insipid

• fetid

DEF: to forgive or overlook an offense

• redress

• condone

• conscript

• impute

• collate

DEF: to captivate as though spellbound

• abet

• enthrall

• occlude

• conflate

• castigate

DEF: excessively eager to deliver unasked for or unwanted help

• jaunty

• genteel

• strident

• officious

• restive

DEF: state of sluggish mental or physical activity; state of not caring

• torpor

• avarice

• mettle

• argot

• enigma

DEF: belief or trust

• argot

• mettle

• jingoism

• credence

• enigma

DEF: an expert in matters of culture, food, or wine

• dilettante

• mercenary

• connoisseur

• bigot

• rancor

DEF: having a buoyant, self-confident air; brisk and crisp

• jaunty

• extraneous

• officious

• irascible

• gregarious

DEF: polite and respectable in manner

• adamant

• diffident

• venal

• strident

• genteel

DEF: an organized group of people with an obsessive devotion to a person or set of principles

• anathema

• cult

• rote

• privation

• retinue