Mastering Vocabulary Skills Chapter 11 & 12

Vitriolic

• full of violent hate, and anger. Bitter

• Happy

• Full of windows

• Rain

Pleasing to the senses, having an impression of beauty

• Moral

• Financial

• Aesthetic

• Arbor

Rebuff

• To refuse to accept a helpful suggestion by answering with a cold attitude.

• Wind

• Rain

• Water

Dissonance

• Joy

• Disagreeable and unpleasant combination of sounds

• Glad

• Rain

Disparage

• To criticize and say bad things in a disrespectful manner

• To join

• Unity

• An actor

Ingratiate

• To flatter someone to bring oneself into favor

• To make someone like you by praising them.

• Vegetables

• Rain

Immutable

• Not changing or varying

• Unable to be changed

• Lake

• River

Insipid

• Not having a strong taste or character, unexciting

• Ground

• Space

Peerless

• Without an equal

• So superior as to be without equal

• Unequal, unrival

• Rain

Propriety

• Correctness

• Appropriateness

• the state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

• Rain