English 10- Honors (Lesson #5)

pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

• exhort

• inveigh

• bombastic

• stringent

a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality

• exhort

• millennium

• inveigh

• epitome

belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part

• intrinsic

• inveigh

• aplomb

• millennium

a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy

• ingratiate

• millennium

• precipitate

• exhort

to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in critical or derogatory sense)

• inveigh

• bombastic

• ingratiate

• exhort

Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste

• stringent

• intrinsic

• exhort

• bombastic

poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity

• inveigh

• bombastic

• epitome

• aplomb

to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

• bombastic

• aplomb

• stringent

• inveigh

(v) to fall as moisture; to bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; (adj)characterized by excessive haste; (n) moisture; the product of an action or process

• ingratiate

• exhort

• precipitate

• aplomb

To urge strongly, advise earnestly

• stringent

• exhort

• aplomb

• precipitate