ELA Unit 16 Vocabulary

Marked by accurate or keen perception

• endeavor

• precede

• acute

• vex

Showing deep thought or a superior level of learning 

• taunt

• deliberate

• guttural

• profound

To aggravate or annoy

• forestall

• vex

• deliberate

• sovereign

to come before or in front of

• acute

• deliberate

• precede

• forestall

a determined effort; serious and directed activity

• endeavor

• vex

• acute

• sovereign

To hinder or prevent with prior action

• profound

• guttural

• endeavor

• forestall

Performed with careful planning; purposeful

• vex

• deliberate

• taunt

• precede

One having supreme power; ruler

• sovereign

• vex

• profound

• taunt

to chide or criticize in a mocking way; insult

• deliberate

• forestall

• taunt

• acute

having to do with speech sounds made in the throat;

 harsh or raspy-sounding

• vex

• guttural

• acute

• deliberate