DaWG 2.3 Review

clever in regard to understanding and making judgements about a situation

• shrewd

• emphatic

• reverie

• austere

in a way that sounds sad, especially in a weak way

• deference

• nostalgic

• plaintively

• implored

to ask for something (to be done) in an anxious way because you want or need it to a great degree

• audacious

• implored

• melodrama

• rectified

​having or bringing a sad feeling mixed with pleasure when you think of happy times in the past

• reverie

• deference

• implored

• nostalgic

spoken with force to show that something is important (to the speaker)

• daunting

• emphatic

• eludes

• melodrama

​events, behavior, stories, etc. that are exaggerated or extreme

• melodrama

• emphatic

• daunting

• reverie

describes something that makes you feel nervous and less confident (about a task, event, doing something, etc.)

• pretenses

• falters

• eludes

• daunting

to manage to avoid or escape from somebody/something, especially in a clever way

• nostalgic

• falters

• eludes

• deference

the act of behaving in a particular way, in order to make other people believe something that is not true

• impudent

• pretenses

• shrewd

• audacious

simple and plain; without any decorations/allowing nothing that gives pleasure; not comfortable

• austere

• audacious

• daunting

• rectified