F451 Vocab (section 2)

Definition: Assure

• To make someone confident or certain about something
• To make someone feel anxious or worried.
• To provide physical security or protection.
• To cause doubt or uncertainty in someone.

Definition: Beatific

• Feeling bored or making someone feel bored.
• Feeling sad or making someone feel sad.
• Feeling angry or making someone feel angry.
• Blissfully happy or making someone feel blissfully happy.

Definition: Complement

• Something that is of lesser value

• The ability to excel at something

• A thing that provides extra features/ improves quality

• A distraction from something important

Definition: Contempt

• A feeling of admiration or respect towards someone or something.
• A state of indifference or apathy towards someone or something.
• A feeling of fear or anxiety towards someone or something.
• A feeling of disdain or disrespect towards someone or something.

Definition: Devour

• To eat or consume something slowly and reluctantly.
• To eat or consume something quickly and eagerly.
• To eat or consume something slowly and cautiously.
• To eat or consume something quickly and angrily.

Definition: Disperse

• scatter or spread out
• assemble or unite
• concentrate or condense
• gather or collect

Definition: Divert

• Increase the speed or intensity of something.
• Alter the shape or form of something.
• Change the direction or course of something.
• Decrease the size or amount of something.

Definition: Dwindle

• Gradually decrease or diminish in size, amount, or strength.
• Suddenly increase or amplify in size, amount, or strength.
• Rapidly fluctuate or change in size, amount, or strength.

• Remain constant or unchanged in size, amount, or strength.

Definition: Filigree

• A simple and plain design made from plastic wire.
• A delicate and intricate design made from fine gold or silver wire
• A thick and heavy design made from coarse wire.
• A bold and colorful design made from fabric wire.

Definition: Insidious

• Proceeding in a rapid, obvious way, with beneficial effects.
• Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects
• Proceeding in a sudden, dramatic way, with harmful effects.
• Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with beneficial effects.