Vocab 15 & 16 - 10th

Ungainly

• (of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy

• Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded

• Abundant in supply or quantity

• Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

Amenable

• Awkward and clumsy

• Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded

• Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• Abundant in supply or quantity

Ascertain

• A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

• To know something without having to reason it out

• Find (something) out for certain; make sure of

• Use gestures, especially dramativ ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words

Candor

• Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

• The ability to complete a task

• Determination

• The quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness

Copious

• Abundant in supply or quantity

• Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded

• Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

• A large or excessive amount of something

Gesticulate

• Reserved of uncommunicative

• Use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words

• Something that comes quickly and heavily

• Find (something) out for certain; make sure of

Taciturn

• Abundant in supply or quantity

• Open and responsive to suggestion

• (of a person) reserved and uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

Barrage

• Something that comes quickly and heavily

• Confirm or give support to

• Find something out for certain; make sure of

• A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

Corroborate

• Confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding)

• Something that comes quickly and heavily

• Find something out for certain; make sure of

• Use gestures instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words

Uncouth

• Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

• (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech

• Abundant in supply or quantity

• (of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy