Weeks 13-16 Vocab quiz

Match the following

• sadness for no reason

• Exorbitant

• to improve; make better

• Ameliorate

• unreasonably high; excessive

• Fastidious

• very attentive to and concerned with detail

• Melancholy

Match the following

• having or displaying a friendly or pleasant manner

• Conspicuous

• Open to more than one interpretation

• Amiable

• Courage in facing difficulties

• Ambiguous

• easily seen or noticed

• Fortitude

Feeling regret for having committed some wrongdoing

• contrite

• macabre

• ameliorate

• fastidious

Grisly, gruesome, horrible; having death as a subject

• fastidious

• ameliorate

• macabre

• contrite

Thoughtful

• amiable

• pensive

• trite

• fortitude

Noisy; unruly; disorderly

• conspicuous

• obstreperous

• melancholy

• ambiguous

to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch

• amiable

• sully

• dismal

• trite

overused

• trite

• sully

• amiable

• pensive

causing gloom or misery

• amiable

• sully

• conspicuous

• dismal

Match the following

• a puzzle; a mystery

• enigma

• rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

• churlish

• generous in forgiving

• tangible

• to inspire with love; to captivate

• enamor

• capable of being touched

• magnanimous