Week 2 Vocabulary Practice

Acquittal

• a setting free by judgement of a court; a release from a duty, obligation, etc.

• showing or feeling scorn

• patient courage in facing pain or danger; moral strength; endurance

Assert

• to stoop to do something you think is unworthy of you

•  fame, usually in an unfavorable sense

• to express or state positively; to defend or claim (one’s rights, for example)

Condescend

• of or suitable for a select group; n. a group or part of a group regarded as the best, most skilled, most powerful, etc.

• to stoop to do something you think is unworthy of you

• a setting free by judgement of a court; a release from a duty, obligation, etc.

Contemptuous

•  to develop gradually by process of growth and change

• showing or feeling scorn

•  a wise and trusted teacher; a counselor

Elite

• of or suitable for a select group; n. a group or part of a group regarded as the best, most skilled, most powerful, etc.

• patient courage in facing pain or danger; moral strength; endurance

• to express or state positively; to defend or claim (one’s rights, for example)

Evolve

• to develop gradually by process of growth and change

• fame, usually in an unfavorable sense

• showing or feeling scorn

Fortitude

• unable to speak understandably or effectively or to use words; unable to say what one thinks

• fame, usually in an unfavorable sense

• patient courage in facing pain or danger; moral strength; endurance

Inarticulate

• showing or feeling scorn

• unable to speak understandably or effectively or to use words; unable to say what one thinks

• to express or state positively; to defend or claim (one’s rights, for example)

Mentor

• showing or feeling scorn

•  a wise and trusted teacher; a counselor

•  a setting free by judgement of a court; a release from a duty, obligation, etc.

Notoriety

• to stoop to do something you think is unworthy of you

•  to develop gradually by process of growth and change

•  fame, usually in an unfavorable sense