Level F - Unit 12 Vocabulary

(n.) an eager desire for something; greed

• enhance

• prosaic

• cupidity

• winsome

(v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way

• extenuate

• politic

• sanctimonious

• caricature

(v.) to make a loud ringing noise

• absolve

• clangor

• scintillating

• ostentatious

(adj.) side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time

• cupidity

• paragon

• contiguous

• redundant

(n.) a loud ringing sound;

• clangor

• implicit

• prosaic

• incisive

(v.) re-state in other words; (n.) a statement that presents a given idea in new language

• enthrall

• paraphrase

• prosaic

• absolve

(n.) a representation in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated

• paraphrase

• enthrall

• caricature

• winsome

(adj.) harmful, injurious

• incisive

• implicit

• deleterious

• enhance

(adj.) making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou

• ostentatious

• sanctimonious

• enthrall

• paragon

(v.) to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt

• enhance

• implicit

• sanctimonious

• absolve