LESSON 14 ELA ROBUST VOCABULARY

people that are overly confident and sure of themselves

• Boastful

• Arrogant

• Egotistical

• Overbearing

if you approach something cautiously and tentatively

• gingerly

• Aggressively

• Carelessly

• Recklessly

when you have pulled suddenly away from something in anticipation of something unpleasant

• Hesitated

• Flinched

• Recoiled

• winced

it cannot improve or be cured

• secure

• terminal

• success

• cured

when you have met someone but do not know them very well

• welcome

• gingerly

• acquaintance

• terminal

when you are prevented from making progress on a task

• stymied

• Impeded

• Halted

• Obstructed

you get something and bring it back to where it was before

• retrieve

• egotistical

• acquaintance

• rank

something that tastes or smells foul

• winced

• rank

• stymied

• gingerly