Weekly Vocab Les. 9 - Honors

to block or stop; to hinder

• squalid

• stymie

• blatant

• gibe

to beat or strike with a club

• sporadic

• gibe

• stoic

• bludgeon

keen; accurate understanding

• perceptive

• ghastly

• stupor

• paucity

a derisive (hateful or mocking) remark

• bravado

• peerless

• stoic

• gibe

a daze; mental dullness or apathy (interest or enthusiasm)

• stupor

• buffoon

• paucity

• perceptive

unpleasantly loud; glaringly obvious or conspicuous

• sporadic

• peerless

• squalid

• blatant

terrifying; dreadful; horrible to look at

• stoic

• glutton

• ghastly

• bludgeon

sordid; miserable; very poor and run-down

• peerless

• blatant

• ghastly

• squalid

in short supply; a scarcity of ideas or objects; a small number

• paucity

• buffoon

• stymie

• gibe

a clown or jester; a person who is always trying to be funny

• stoic

• buffoon

• bravado

• stupor