Vocab list 1

Match the following

• make something less intense

• affliction

• someone who cant accept another opinion

• abate

• a cause of pain or harm

• bleak

• cold, miserable, dreary

• bigot

• tell someone off firmly

• admonish

Match the following

• gloomy, depressing, or generally bad

• corrupt

• to eat quickly and eagerly

• dismal

• to act dishonest for money or gain

• devour

• being cautious with money

• casual

• to be relaxed or unconcerned

• canny

Match the following

• suffer something painful with patience

• endure

• gloomy, depressing, or generally bad

• docile

• easy going and easy to control

• dismal

I have really good ____________on the track.

• corrupt

• docile

• endurance

• devoured

My friend's personality was ________ after she got a bad grade.

• endure

• dismal

• docile

• corrupt

The student was very __________and all the teachers liked having him.

• canny

• dismal

• corrupt

• docile

I am really _________ with my money, and I make sure to save enough each month.

• abate

• dismal

• canny

• docile

I __________ finished my school work with ease.

• devoured

• casually

• dismally

• bleakly

The banker was ________ and stole money.

• casual

• docile

• corrupt

• canny

I ___________the cake for my birthday.

• abated

• bleak

• admonished

• devoured