EP Literature and Composition 1 Vocabulary 1-3

give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors; renounce

• aghast

• banal

• abdicate

• charlatan

Struck with fear, dread, or consternation; appalled, dismayed, shocked

• aghast

• culpable

• deplore

• intoxicate

repeated to often; over familiar through overuse; commonplace

• bountiful

• banal

• abdicate

• unconscionable

producing in abundance; plentiful

• improvident

• negate

• retrospective

• bountiful

a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

• charlatan

• intoxicate

• efface

a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

• complaisance

• bountiful

• culpable

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; guilty

• phlegmatic

• culpable

• banal

express strong disapproval of; regret strongly; lament, bemoan

• frivolous

• excult

• deplore

removed completely from recognition or memory; erase, obliterate

• efface

• gratuitous

• excult

a state of deep-seated ill-will; hostility, antagonism

• negate

• enmity

• improvident