Review for Quiz 16 - vocabulary & figurative language

lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity

 

 

• menial

• haggard

• stance

a way of holding the body; an attitude or position

• stance

• waver

• parry

not putting on airs, unpretentious

• unassuming

• turncoat

• tawdry

to destroy, lay waste, ruin

• ravage

• predatory

• tawdry

to move to and fro, become unsteady

• waver

• stance

• menial

to ward off, fend off, evade, avoid

• parry

• waver

• wallow

to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless

• wallow

• predatory

• tawdry

a person who switches to an opposing side

• turncoat

• ravage

• parry

preying on , plundering, or piratical

• predatory

• tawdry

• unassuming

showy and flashy, but lacking in good taste

• tawdry

• unassuming

• menial