PowerPlus Vocabulary level seven lesson 17

a strong desire

• yen
• wan
• duress
• feint
• crux

deserving reprimand; blameworthy

• trivial
• askew
• reprehensible
• doleful
• brazen

enthusiastic enjoyment; delight

• candor
• valor
• oration
• gusto
• tact

turned or twisted to one side

• listless
• askew
• dynamic
• frail
• taut

to purchase with the expectation of making a profit

• deploy
• vie
• construe
• speculate
• ascend

tending to deceive; misleading

• vigorous
• irate
• deceptive
• unabated
• brash

excessively proud of oneself; conceited

• conspicuous
• innate
• vain
• brash
• moot

to make easier

• assail
• facilitate
• saturate
• disperse
• exploit

an idea or statement upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn; a belief

• premise
• quibble
• constraint
• pretext
• duress

to deal with; to endure difficulties successfully

• impugn
• succumb
• undermine
• cope
• dupe