Week 1 Vocabulary Words

A rough or noisy fight or quarrel

• tragedy

• brawl

• lure

• absolve

An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe

• regal

• ambivalent

• tragedy

• brawling

make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe

• alleviate

• luring

• absolve

• analyze

having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

• regal

• ambivalent

• lugubrious

• brawling

of, resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified

• absolve

• regal

• alleviate

• luring

looking or sounding sad and dismal

• lugubrious

• tragedy

• regal

• absolve

examine methodically and in detail the structure of (something, especially information), typically for the purpose of explanation and interpretation

• lugubrious

• alleviate

• absolve

• analyze

set or declare (somone) free from blame, guilt, or responsibility

• ambivalent

• alleviate

• absolve

• analyze

tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward

• lugubrious

• luring

• regal

• absolve