Vocab Lesson 5

Match the following words to their definitions

• desire to harm others

• penitent

• slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

• malice

• wealth, influence, abundance

• oblique

• showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant

• opulence

• acting routinely with little interest or care

• perfunctory

Match the following words to their definiton

• incapable of error

• infallible

• laziness

• inane

• difficult to understand; mysterious

• inscrutable

• slow, sluggish, listless, weak

• indolence

• lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly, insipid

• languid

Match the following words to their definition

• to thrive, to grow well

• flourish

• lasting a short period of time, fleeting

• haughty

• savagery

• ferocity

• incapable of being entered or penetrated, not capable of being damaged

• impervious

• arrogant, excessively proud and vain

• ephemeral

Match the following words to their definition

• to reduce in dignity or quality

• calamity

• to make clear, to explain

• elucidate

• to persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax, to wheedle

• cajole

• to erase, to wear away

• debase

• a serious event causing distress or misfortune

• efface

Match the following words to their definition

• to make better, to relieve, to improve

• amorphous

• capable of floating; cheerful

• amenable

• caustic

• ameliorate

• shapeless, having no definite form

• acrimonious

• open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable

• buoyant