Week 6 Vocabulary

To persuade with false promises and flattery

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk

To explain in detail; to clarify

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk

The work one is especially suited for; one’s specialty; an occupation

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk

To refuse stubbornly or abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go on

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk

Disguised; pretending not to be oneself

• Incognito

• Acrimony

• Dour

• Harry

Ill-natured, bitter hostility

• Incognito

• Acrimony

• Dour

• Harry

Stern and ill-humored

• Incognito

• Acrimony

• Dour

• Harry

To annoy or harrass

• Incognito

• Acrimony

• Dour

• Harry

Despite her best efforts, the mayor could not --------Madame Harris into donating the land to the city.

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk

Closing the book, the teacher ---------on the chapter they had just read. 

• Cajole

• Expound

• Metier

• Balk