English 12 Vocab Quiz #3 2023

displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness

• pretext

• machination

• grudging

• disinter

mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous

• procure

• ration

• maxim

• cryptic

tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system,

especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs

• subversive

• toil

• maxim

• disinter

crafty schemes; plots; intrigues

• subversive

• pretext

• procure

• machination

hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort

• toil

• grudging

• cryptic

• maxim

to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means

• disinter

• machination

• procure

• subversive

to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth

• cryptic

• pretext

• disinter

• disinter

a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage

• machination

• ration

• subversive

• pretext

something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse

• pretext

• disinter

• grudging

• toil

an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one: a principle or rule of conduct

• subversive

• maxim

• procure

• pretext