Unit 4: Vocabulary Quiz # 1

an official order or commission to do something

• entitlement

• sanction

• mandate

• legislate

having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent

• deplorably

• listlessly

• patently

• fatuously

to attack; to assault

• morsel

• assail

• ferocity

• assert

the quality or state of being fierce, savage, or relentless

• pity

• felicitous

• brevity

• ferocity

certain to happen; unavoidable

• irrepressible

• diversion

• inevitable

• ferocity

sultry

• unimaginative

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unwillingly; hesitantly

• hot, humid

with strong feelings; enthusiastically or forcefully

• Legislate

• Emphatically

• Vehemently

• Mandate

having ultimate authority in a matter; a judge who decides a disputed issue

• objective

• minister

• dissentient

• arbiter

debilitating

• definitely; without a doubt

• making someone very weak or sick

• very badly

• to write and pass laws

based on personal opinions and feelings rather than on facts

• objective

• Subjective

• dissentient

• arbiter