Unit 10 Vocabulary

to accept without protest; to agree or submit

• Acquiesce
• Disheveled
• Sonorous
• Insuperable

to entice, tempt; to be attractive to; (n.) a strong attraction; the power to attract, charm

• Allure
• Profess
• Lamentable
• Sinuous

twisted to one side, crooked; disapprovingly

• Askew
• Sonorous
• Retribution
• Allure

cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned

• Blithe
• Retribution
• Crestfallen
• Covet

quarrelsome, inclined to argue

• Contentious
• Respite
• Exponent
• Profess

to desire something belonging to another

• Covet
• Allure
• Sinuous
• Crestfallen

discouraged, dejected, downcast

• Crestfallen
• Retribution
• Sinuous
• Misnomer

rumpled, mussed; hanging in disorder

• Disheveled
• Wastrel
• Crestfallen
• Misnomer

one who advocates, speaks for, explains, or interprets

• Exponent
• Contentious
• Allure
• Insuperable

given to much talking, tediously chatty

• Garrulous
• Acquiesce
• Misnomer
• Contentious