Critical Vocabulary #13

To ​ (a)   something means that something will be polluted or poisonous.

• contaminate
• benevolent
• endangered
• reduce

To walk with a short tottering steps in the manner of a young child means to ​ (a)   .

• toddle
• deplete
• endangered
• imperil

Well meaning and kindly means....

• imperil

• benevolent

• toddles

• deplete

What is an act of moving back or withdrawing?

• spectacle

• imply

• conscious

• retreat

What means to be put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed?

• reduce

• deplete

• imperil

• cascade

What is a visually striking performance or display?

• imperil

• spectacle

• retreat

• toddle

If the elephants are running low in numbers in their populations, they are considered ____.

• endangered

• imperil

• benevolent

• retreat

A paper or cardboard container, typically one in which goods are put together are called a ​ (a)   .

• packet
• spectacle
• cascade
• contaminate

What does it mean to decrease the size or amount of something?

• imply

• deplete

• reduce

• contaminte

To ____, means to deny the truth of a statement by asserting the opposite.

• contradict

• conscious

• spectacle

• toddle