Friday Vocab

______ means to become or make larger or more extensive.

"their business expanded into other hotels and properties"

• Devastate

• Expand

• Prevail

• Fracture

_____ means to prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious.

• Absurd

• Aggregate

• Revoke

• Prevail

______ means a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something.

• Expand

• Fracture

• Incentive

• Revoke

______ means persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.

• Perseverance

• Devastate

• Absurd

• Altercation

_____ means arousing amusement or derision; ridiculous.

wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.

• Revoke

• Expand

• Devastate

• Absurd

_____ means to put an end to the validity or operation of (a decree, decision, or promise).

Similar: cancel; repeal; invalidate; abolish

• Fracture

• Revoke

• Incentive

• Aggregate

______ means to destroy or ruin (something).

• Altercation

• Incentive

• Absurd

• Devastate

_____ means a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public.

Similar: argument; quarrel; fight; disagreement

• Aggregate

• Incentive

• Altercation

• Prevail

______ is the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.

Similar: rupture; shattering; splitting

• Absurd

• Fracture

• Expand

• Perseverance

_____ is a whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements.

• Aggregate

• Revoke

• Expand

• Altercation