AVID Vocab Practice 1-2

Muse

• to instruct to improve, enlighten, or uplift

• to become absorbed in thought; to turn something over in the mind

• to make something seem less important.

•  to decline.

Meticulous

• excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous.

• notably polite or polished in manner.

• used too often; trite; commonplace.

• spiteful; intentional mischievous or  harmful.

Urbane

• to blot out leaving no traces; to destroy.

• spiteful; intentional mischievous or  harmful.

• spiteful; intentional mischievous or  harmful.

• notably polite or polished in manner.

Sagacity

• the quality of being keen in judgment.

•  a maze; a complicated, perplexing  arrangement or course of affairs.

• the specialized vocabulary of members of a  group.

• a systematic naming in an art or  science.

Edify

• to ignite; to arouse or inspire; to catch fire; to  become aroused.

• to decline.

• to instruct to improve, enlighten, or uplift.

• deviating from the right path or usual course  of action; a mental disorder, especially of a minor or temporary  nature.

aberration

•  a person who attacks cherished beliefs or  established institutions.

• a maze; a complicated, perplexing  arrangement or course of affairs.

• used too often; trite; commonplace.

• deviating from the right path or usual course  of action; a mental disorder, especially of a minor or temporary  nature.

belittle

•  to become absorbed in thought; to turn something over in the mind.

• to decline

• to arouse suddenly; to startle.

• to make something seem less important.

cache

• a hiding place; something hidden in a hiding  place.

• a person who attacks cherished beliefs or  established institutions.

• a maze; a complicated, perplexing  arrangement or course of affairs.

• to blot out leaving no traces; to destroy.

dearth

• to decline

• shortage

• a systematic naming in an art or  science.

• used too often; trite; commonplace.

ebb

•  to decline

• to make something seem less important.

• deviating from the right path or usual course  of action; a mental disorder, especially of a minor or temporary  nature.

• to instruct to improve, enlighten, or uplift.