Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 5, All Words

The word VOLATILE

MOST NEARLY means:

• (adj.) Tending toward violence; Explosive

• (n.) A ghost or ghostlike image of a person

• (adj.) Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor; Sarcastic

• (v.) To crouch down in fear

• (adj.) More than sufficient to meet a need or purpose; Abundant

The word AGHAST

MOST NEARLY means:

• (v.) To declare or state with force or confidence, to defend strongly

• (v.) To crouch down in fear

• (v.) To pound, crush or grind into powder or dust; To destroy or demolish by crushing

• (adj.) Seeming reasonable or probable

• (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement; Shocked

The word DISDAIN

MOST NEARLY means:

• (adj.) Tending toward violence; Explosive

• (n.) A ghost or ghostlike image of a person

• (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement; Shocked

• (n.) A statement written on a gravestone in memory of a person who died

• (v.) To treat as beneath oneself with hatred, to treat with contempt

The word INTRIGUE

MOST NEARLY means:

• (n.) A secret or underhanded scheme; (v.) To engage in secret or underhanded schemes, to plot; To arouse the interest or curiosity of

• (n.) Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;

• (adj.) Of or relating to standards or morality

• (n.) Something that follows another; A continuation of a story

• (adj.) Of or relating to the lower class, common and vulgar

The word PRODIGAL

MOST NEARLY means:

• (v.) To pound, crush or grind into powder or dust; To destroy or demolish by crushing

• (adj.) Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor; Sarcastic

• (n.) A person who is wastefully extravagant

• (n.) A commoner, a member of the lower class

• (n.) Nearness in space, time, or relationship; Closeness

The word PLEBEIAN

MOST NEARLY means:

• (v.) To pound, crush or grind into powder or dust; To destroy or demolish by crushing

• (adj.) Seeming reasonable or probable

• (adj.) Of or relating to the lower class, common and vulgar

• (n.) A secret or underhanded scheme

• (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement; Shocked

The word PULVERIZE

MOST NEARLY means:

• (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement; Shocked

• (adj.) Unable to be heard; Too faint to make a sound

• (n.) A person who is wastefully extravagant

• (v.) To pound, crush or grind into powder or dust; To destroy or demolish by crushing

• (adj.) Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor; Sarcastic

The word JURISDICTION

MOST NEARLY means:

• (adj.) Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor; Sarcastic

• (v.) To treat as beneath oneself with hatred, to treat with contempt

• (v.) To crouch down in fear

• (adj.) Seeming reasonable or probable

• (n.) Lawful power or right to exercise official authority

The word INAUDIBLE

MOST NEARLY means:

• (adj.) Unable to be heard; Too faint to make a sound

• (v.) To engage in secret or underhanded schemes, to plot; To arouse the interest or curiosity of

• (adj.) Wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property

• (v.) To pound, crush or grind into powder or dust; To destroy or demolish by crushing

• (adj.) Tending toward violence; Explosive

The word EPITAPH

MOST NEARLY means:

• (n.) A secret or underhanded scheme

• (adj.) Tending toward violence; Explosive

• (v.) To declare or state with force or confidence, to defend strongly

• (n.) A statement written on a gravestone in memory of a person who died

• (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement; Shocked