Wags ELA Vocab 2/2/24

​ Very appropriate to a particular situation.​ (a)  

​ Not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient.​ (b)  

Immature or inexperienced.​ (c)  

Occupation of a position of dominant power​ (d)  

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.​ ​ (e)  

• Apropos
• Deficient
• Callow
• Ascendancy
• Voracious
• Impediment
• Concede
• Embody
• Despot
• Sagacious

Conflict, a struggle.​ (a)  

A hindrance or obstruction in doing something.​​ (b)  

Admit that something is true; surrender​ (c)  

Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to​ (d)  

A ruler or other person that holds absolute power.​ (e)  

• Strife
• Impediment
• Concede
• Embody
• Despot
• Dogma
• Speculate
• Indolent
• Apropos
• Enunciate

Shrewd, wise, very clever.​ (a)  

Evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of ​ (b)  

Living or occurring at the same time. ​ ​ (c)  

The art or practice of formal speaking in public. ​ (d)  

Loudly supportive, vehement, or clamorous. ​ (e)  

• Sagacious
• Assess
• Contemporary
• Oratory
• Vociferous
• Embody
• Sojourn
• Venerate
• Cynical
• Voracious

A principle or set of principles laid down as true.​ (a)  

Denoting attitudes, activities, with no religious basis.​ (b)  

Involving or limited to basic principles.​ (c)  

Form a theory without firm evidence.​ (d)  

A person who advocates a theory, proposal, or project. ​ (e)  

• Dogma
• Secular
• Rudimentary
• Speculate
• Proponent
• Indolent
• Sagacious
• Strife
• Impart
• Cynical

A temporary stay.​ (a)  

Breed by natural processes from parent stock.​ (b)  

Make (information) known; communicate.​ (c)  

Lazy, wanting to avoid work or exertion.​ (d)  

Say or pronounce clearly.​ (e)  

• Sojourn
• Propagate
• Impart
• Indolent
• Enunciate
• Impediment
• Concede
• Ascendancy
• Embody
• Contemporary

Revere, admire, or look up to

• Venerate

• Cynical

• Sagacious

• Concede

Distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

• Cynical

• Assess

• Callow

• Rudimentary