Book 12: Lesson 2 Vocabulary (Wordly Wise)

Define ABSOLVE

• to clear guilt, or to free from a promise or a responsibility

• to condemn

• to punish

• to hold accountable

Define INELUCTABLE

• unpredictable

• avoidable

• not to be avoided or changed; inevitable

• evitable

Define IMMURE

• free

• to confine within or as if within walls; imprison

• to let go

• to liberate

Define HIATUS

• to prolong

• a continuation

• a closing

• an interruption or gap in space, continuity, or time

Define ADUMBRATE...

• a short, instructive saying

• to foreshadow in an indirect way

• to be avoided or changed

• to made clear

Define APOTHEGM...

• to imprison

• to appeal earnestly

• a discourse

• a short, instructive saying

Define GERMANE...

• pertinent and fitting

• inappropriate

• mutually destructive

• irrelevant

Define INVOKE...

• to clear guilt

• to foreshadow in an indirect way

• to appeal to earnestly

• to restrict

Define PROTOTYPE...

• an assistant

• an original

• a carbon copy

• a by-product

Define ASPERSION...

• approval

• pertinent

• flattery

• slander