Mastering Vocabulary Skills Chapter 15

Usurp

• To take over, To seize power by force

• To clean

• To live

• Rain

Supercilious

• Grateful

• Support

• Looking down on others, Proud, Snobbish

• Rain

Steadfast

• Firm and consistently Faithful and loyal

• Rain

• Providence

• Outside

Provincial

• Loan

• Rain

• unsophisticated, narrow-minded, from a province

• Forgetful

Callous

• Family

• Foot

• Cruel disregard, unfeeling, having no sympathy and insensitive

• Rain

Desecrate

• To treat with violent and extreme disrespect

• to hug

• to save

• Rain

Evanescent

• Qualify

• Rain

• Quickly fading, temporarily present, fading away like vapor

• Alka Selzer

Heed

• To listen to, and pay attention to advice

• Ignore

• Rain

• Jump

Indigent

• Toothpaste

• Imagine

• Unable to afford basic necessities, Not having enough to live on

• Lavish

Paragon

• Rain

• Concerned

• Paper

• A model/Perfection/An ideal example