9th Grade Vocabulary Study Guide

Sober or serious in manner, modest.

• Brevity

• Demure

• Relentless

• Garble

To spend foolishly, waste.

• Deteriorate

• Reek

• Proponent

• Squander

A law.

• Statute

• Quaver

• Forestall

• Divulge

Shortness.

• Depreciation

• Concise

• Brevity

• Enlightened

To conduct or bear oneself, behave; to be in agreement.

• Deteriorate

• Garble

• Comport

• Forestall

Expressing much in a few words.

• Staccato

• Concise

• Squander

• Rivulet

Lessening in value; a belittling.

• Deteriorate

• Depreciation

• Reek

• Recoil

To lower in quality or value; to wear away.

• Squander

• Recoup

• Deteriorate

• Brevity

To tell, reveal; to make public.

• Divulge

• Demure

• Proponent

• Garble

To distort in such a way as to make unintelligible.

• forestall

• enlightened

• Garble

• proponent