3rd Quarter Vocabulary Words 1-40

Influence or control something or someone (usually in an unfair manner)

• manipulate

• posterity

• panorama

• dispatch

Move or back away

• recede

• libel

• meager

• dawdle

Send off with speed

• dispatch

• conserve

• authorize

• ferocious

Acting against something; opposing

• adverse

• refurbish

• stifle

• onset

Lacking in quantity; not enough

• meager

• engulf

• authorize

• acquit

Abandon; desert

• forsake

• boisterous

• recede

• dawdle

Hold back; restrain

• stifle

• nullification

• abominable

• manipulate

Done in an instant

• instantaneous

• refurbish

• culprit

• elaborate

A published statement that is false and damages a person's reputation

• libel

• onset

• priority

• panorama

Declare not guilty; clear someone of a criminal charge

• acquit

• manacles

• misgivings

• authorize