test prep vocabulary session 5

able to hold or keep, retaining knowledge easily

• servile

• balmy

• retentive

• jocular

to cut or tear

• lacerate

• tepid

• banter

• evolve

engaged in conflict; quarrelsome

• carnivore

• servile

• audacious

• Belligerent

sudden and without planning

• desolate

• spontaneous

• scapegoat

• recur

distinctive and stylish elegance

• desolate

• Flair

• oratory

• serene

a person who is blamed for someone else's mistakes

• Scapegoat

• Tepid

• audacious

• duped

lonely, uninhabited, barren

• antics

• patriarchy

• Desolate

• servile

enlarge or increase

• carnivore

• oratory

• comply

• augment

lacking brightness and vitality

• Lackluster

• flustered

• tepid

• desist

nervous and confused

• apt

• serene

• flustered

• jocular