Morris Vocab Unit 5

Match the term to the definition

• to make easier; to assist

• latent

• not letting light through; dense

• facilitate

• shameless, impudent; made of brass

• opaque

• hidden; present but not realized

• brazen

• person who takes part in a crime

• accomplish

Match the term to the definition

• to scold, find fault with; a rebuke

• incorrigible

• not able to be corrected; beyond control

• morose

• to destroy completely

• annihiliate

• not running; foul from standing still

• reprimand

• having a gloomy/sullen manner; not nice

• stagnant

​ (a)   :unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness

​ (b)   : given to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause; an activist

​ (c)   : chief in important; above all others

• arbitrary
• militant
• paramount

(a)   : careless and hasty

​ (b)   : a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change

​ (c)   : a large-scale departure or flight

• slapdash
• catalyst
• exodus

Match the term to the definition

prattle - (a)  

rebut - (b)  

servitude- ​ (c)  

succumb- ​ (d)  

• prattle

• rebut

• to talk on and on; to babble
• to offer arguments or evidence
• slavery, forced labor
• to give way to superior force; yield

Match the synonyms

• morbid, doleful

• facilitate

• cursory, perfunctory, sloppy, slipshod

• arbitrary

• ease, smooth the way, simplify

• slapdash

• capricious, high-handed, autocratic

• morose

• supreme, foremost, primary, dominant

• paramount

Match the synonyms

• unruly, intractable, incurable

• reprimand

• truculent

• accomplice

• reprove, reproach, reproof

• militant

• submit, die, expire

• incorrigible

• partner in crime, confederate

• succumb

Synonyms of latent: (a)  

Synonyms of opaque: ​ (b)  

Synonyms of annihilate: ​ (c)  

• dormant, inactive, undeveloped
• hazy, cloudy, foggy, murky, dull, obtuse
• obliterate, decimate, demolish

Synonyms of (a)   : saucy, bold

Synonyms of​ (b)   :emigration, escape, hegira

Synonyms of​ (c)   : stimulus, spur, instigator

• brazen
• exodus
• catalyst

Match the following synonyms

• captivity, bondage, thralldom

• rebut

• chatter, twaddle, gibberish, piffle

• stagnant

• disprove, confute, shoot holes in

• prattle

• still, motionless, inert, fetid

• servitude