Spelling Test

feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems

• resilient

• wary

• vindicate

rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.

• fluctuate

• jeopardize

• incoherent

delay or postpone action; put off doing something

• Alternative

• Beneficial

• Procrastinate

serving to lessen the seriousness of an offense.

• Connotation

• Extenuating

• Gist

a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones

• Dilemma

• Exacerbate

• Hypothetical

favorable or advantageous; resulting in good.

• Wary

• Divergent

• Beneficial

the substance or essence of a speech or text.

• Hypothesis

• Nonchalant

• Gist

make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.

• Frugal

• Longevity

• Exacerbate

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

• Connotation

• Dilemma

• Incoherent

available as another possibility.

• Alternative

• Beneficial

• Connotation