Vocabulary List #18 23-24 (HG Pt. 2)

something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering.

• compensation

• bludegeon

• 
• gnarled

Darla expected a certain amount of _____________ for teaching the game of golf to Mr. Yack.

• compensation

• oblivion

• smolder

• coerces

too great to be overcome.

• insurmountable

• gnarled

• sustenence

• despise

The mountain was so _____________ that even Amy could not risk climbing it.

• insurmountable

• oblivion

• despicable

• 

a thick stick with a heavy end, used as a weapon.

• bludgeon

• oblivion

• barbarism

• baptist

Mrs. Martin would use a ____________ to take out the ant colony surrounding the school.

• bludgeon

• oblivion

• serpent

• compensation

a person who saves someone or something

• savior

• sustenance

• despicable

• horde

Mrs. Evans was the ____________ of the soccer team's final match against Allen Park.

• savior

• compensation

• smolder

• 

knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age.

• gnarled

• despicable

• sustenance

• variance

Mrs. Henry said her fingernails were ____________ like an old oak tree.

• gnarled

• oblivion

• insurmountable

• frothy