Unit 12 Vocabulary Answers

Define Appreciable

• Sufficient to be noticed or measured

• absolute in power or

  authority

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

Define Autocratic

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

• absolute in power or

  authority

• strong, muscular

Define Blanch

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

• sufficient to be

  noticed or measured

• absolute in power or

  authority

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

Define Blasphemy

• sufficient to be

  noticed or measured

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

Define Brawny

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

• absolute in power or

  authority

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

• strong, muscular

Define Concerted

• to remove the color

  from; to make or turn

  pale

• an act, utterance, or

  writing showing

  contempt for

  something sacred

• planned or performed

  in cooperation with

  others

• strong, muscular

Define Contend

• to fight, struggle;

  to compete; to argue

• unbearable

• kind, merciful

• very famous,

  distinguished

Define Humane

• strong, muscular

• to fight, struggle;

  to compete; to argue

• planned or performed

  in cooperation with

  others

• kind, merciful

Define Illustrious

• not easy, requiring

  hard work;

  hardworking

• disrespectful

• very famous,

  distinguished

• unbearable

Define Intolerable

• unbearable

• very famous,

  distinguished

• to fight, struggle;

  to compete; to argue

• kind, merciful