Vocabulary List 1

courage and initiative to do something

• appalled

• amiable

• gumption

• resent

a condition or state of affairs; esp., now, an awkward, sad, or dangerous situation

• plight

• melancholy

• deprecate

• resent

having a pleasant and friendly disposition; good-natured

• bilious

• articulate

• amiable

• gumption

to feel and express disapproval of; plead against

• appalled

• deprecate

• impertinent

• bilious

shocked or dismayed

• rebuke

• hastily

• appalled

• mendacity

causing sadness, gloom, or depression

• haughtily

• melancholy

• gumption

• plight

to feel bitter and angry about someone or something

• mendacity

• articulate

• resent

• rebuke

moving or acting in a speedy, quick, or hurried way

• impertinent

• mendacity

• haughtily

• hastily

talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way; rude

• amiable

• impertinent

• plight

• hastily

to refuse to have anything to do with; disown or cast off publicly

• repudiate

• articulate

• bilious

• resent