Vocab Lesson 5

Match the following words to their definitions

• acting routinely with little interest or care

• malice

• wealth, influence, abundance

• perfunctory

• showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant

• opulence

• slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

• penitent

• desire to harm others

• oblique

Match the following words to their definiton

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

• indolence

• difficult to understand; mysterious

• inscrutable

• incapable of error

• inane

• slow, sluggish, listless, weak

• languid

• laziness

• infallible

Match the following words to their definition

• savagery

• ferocity

• lasting a short period of time, fleeting

• impervious

• to thrive, to grow well

• ephemeral

• arrogant, excessively proud and vain

• flourish

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

• haughty

Match the following words to their definition

• to make clear, to explain

• debase

• to reduce in dignity or quality

• cajole

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

• efface

• to erase, to wear away

• elucidate

• a serious event causing distress or misfortune

• calamity

Match the following words to their definition

• capable of floating; cheerful

• buoyant

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

• amorphous

• shapeless, having no definite form

• amenable

• caustic

• acrimonious

• to make better, to relieve, to improve

• ameliorate