vocab unit 4

Define bolster

• To support, give a boost too; (n.) a long pillow or cushion: a supporting post

• To feel or express regret or disapproval

• To remove, drive out of position or place

• Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued in character or conduct

Define deplore

• To feel or express regret or disapproval

• Of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously

• A high point of land extending into water

• Showing concern or care; fearful or anxious about someone or something

Define frivolous

• Of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously

• To trouble, haunt, or fill the mind

• A remainder, that which remained when a part has been used up or removed

• To bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, comprise, include; (n.) a list of military personnel

Define obsess

• To trouble, haunt, or fill the mind

• To remove, drive out of position or place

• To reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void

• To support, give a boost too; (n.) a long pillow or cushion: a supporting post

Define oust

• To remove, drive out of position or place

• To support, nourish, keep up; to suffer, undergo; to bear up under,withstand; to affirm the validity of

• Elaborately decorated; showily splendid

• Indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic

Define porous

• Full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water

• Lying facedown; inclined, likely

• Of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously

• Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued in character or conduct

Define prone

• Lying facedown; inclined, likely

• A pang of conscience, uneasiness, misgiving, or doubt; a feeling of faintness or nausea

• A person of thing of no importance

• To trouble, haunt, or fill the mind

Define qualm

• To remove, drive out of position or place

• Full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water

• Indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic

• To feel or express regret or disapproval

Define residue

• A remainder, that which remained when a part has been used up or removed

• Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued in character or conduct

• Elaborately decorated; showily splendid

• Showing concern or care; fearful or anxious about someone or something

Define staid

• Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued in character or conduct

• A pang of conscience, uneasiness, misgiving, or doubt; a feeling of faintness or nausea

• Lying facedown; inclined, likely

• Full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water