Vocab Lesson 5

Match the following words to their definitions

• acting routinely with little interest or care

• penitent

• slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

• malice

• wealth, influence, abundance

• perfunctory

• showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant

• opulence

• desire to harm others

• oblique

Match the following words to their definiton

• difficult to understand; mysterious

• languid

• laziness

• indolence

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

• infallible

• slow, sluggish, listless, weak

• inane

• incapable of error

• inscrutable

Match the following words to their definition

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

• ferocity

• lasting a short period of time, fleeting

• haughty

• arrogant, excessively proud and vain

• impervious

• savagery

• flourish

• to thrive, to grow well

• ephemeral

Match the following words to their definition

• to reduce in dignity or quality

• cajole

• a serious event causing distress or misfortune

• calamity

• to make clear, to explain

• debase

• to erase, to wear away

• elucidate

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

• efface

Match the following words to their definition

• capable of floating; cheerful

• ameliorate

• caustic

• buoyant

• shapeless, having no definite form

• amenable

• to make better, to relieve, to improve

• acrimonious

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

• amorphous