Choice Board Vocab

Reprieve

• Retract; repeal; cancel

• To moderate; soften

• a respite; a short period of relief from something unpleasant; postponement of a punishment

• Deliberately make something difficult to understand

Tawdry

• of little value; gaudy; flashy but of poor quality

• Free-spirited; carefree; indifference

• Active at dawn and dusk

• Flexible; not stubborn

Obfuscate

• Free-spirited; carefree; indifference

• To moderate; soften

• Deliberately make something difficult to understand

• of little value; gaudy; flashy but of poor quality

Blithe

• Flexible; not stubborn

• Difficult to understand; obscure

• a respite; a short period of relief from something unpleasant; postponement of a punishment

• Free-spirited; carefree; indifference

Crepuscular

• Retract; repeal; cancel

• Active at dawn and dusk

• Flexible; not stubborn

• a respite; a short period of relief from something unpleasant; postponement of a punishment

Pliable

• Flexible; not stubborn

• a respite; a short period of relief from something unpleasant; postponement of a punishment

• of little value; gaudy; flashy but of poor quality

• To moderate; soften

Rescind

• Deliberately make something difficult to understand

• Retract; repeal; cancel

• Difficult to understand; obscure

• of little value; gaudy; flashy but of poor quality

Abstruse

• Difficult to understand; obscure

• Active at dawn and dusk

• of little value; gaudy; flashy but of poor quality

• Flexible; not stubborn