eng 10 - unit 3 vocab

to have an intense dislike or hatred for.

• Abominate

• Nominal

• Vitriolic

• Tenuous

to assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute.

• ascribe

• circuitous

• enjoin

• expiate

roundabout, not direct.

• circuitous

• tenuous

• inadvertant

• seditious

to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress.

• commiserate

• enjoin

• proclivity

• wheedle

to direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit.

• enjoin

• ascribe

• abominate

• wheedle

to make easy, cause to progress faster.

• expedite

• expiate

• ascribe

• abominate

to make amends, make up for; to avert.

• expiate

• expedite

• abominate

• commiserate

resulting from or marked by lack of attention; unintentional, accidental.

• inadvertent

• proclivity

• seditious

• vitriolic

existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously.

• nominal

• tenuous

• inadvertent

• vitriolic

a natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior.

• proclivity

• commiserate

• ascribe

• expiate