Lesson 5 Vocabulary (9th)

doubtful of the sincerity of others' motives; skeptical

• despot

• voracious

• indolent

• cynical

young and inexperienced; immature

• callow

• strife

• voracious

• indolent

to pronounce clearly; to state; to announce

• indolent

• enunciate

• contempporary

• wane

to get smaller, dimmer, or weaker; to near an end

• venerate

• impoverish

• wane

• despot

to show great respect for

• venerate

• speculate

• callolw

• indolent

indulging in ease; avoiding exertion; lazy

• sagacious

• indolent

• cynical

• despot

worldy; not connected with a church or religion

• secular

• impediemnt

• indolent

• sagacious

a ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people

• callow

• secular

• despot

• impoverish

conflict or struggle

• wane

• voracious

• callow

• strife

a person living during the same period as another; existing or occurring at the same time

• voracious

• sagacious

• indolent

• contemporary