Vocabulary Set #3

tending to be thrifty or cheap

• Banal

• Frugality

• Parley

• Guile

to humble oneself in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility

• Guile

• Luminous

• Crescendo

• Grovel

Predictable, cliched, boring

• Banal

• Emulate

• Crescendo

• Austere

discuss, usually between enemies

• Corroborate

• Banal

• Parley

• Guile

to support with evidence

• Parley

• Corroborate

• Grovel

• Guile

severe or stern in appearance; undecorated

• Emulate

• Corroborate

• Banal

• Austere

deceit or trickery

• Guile

• Grovel

• Emulate

• Parley

steadily increasing in volume, force, or pitch to a terminal peak

• Crescendo

• Luminous

• Emulate

• Banal

to copy; to try to equal or excel

• Luminous

• Corroborate

• Emulate

• Guile

bright, brilliant, glowing

• Crescendo

• Luminous

• Emualte

• Austere