Advancing Vocabulary Unit 1

Something that causes damage, harm, or loss

• despondent

• detriment

• scrupulous

• rudimentary

Skillful in using the hands or body

• ostentatious

• resilient

• dexterous

• despondent

Careful about moral standards; conscientious

• discretion

• facetious

• ostentatious

• scrupulous

Humorous; playfully joking

• gregarious

• inadvertent

• euphoric

• facetious

Sociable; enjoying and seeking the company of others

• facetious

• gregarious

• impetuous

• zealous

Best possible; most favorable; most desirable

• sporatic

• facetious

• optimum

• ostentatious

Meant to impress others; flashy

• ostentatious

• zenith

• illicit

• irrevocable

Good judgment or tack in actions or speaking

• ubiquitous

• ambiguous

• scrupulous

• ostentatious

Having to do with seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling

• sensory

• sporadic

• ambiguous

• zenith

Experienced through the imagination; not experienced directly

• despondent

• abiguous

• charlatan

• vicarious