Vocab 2 Review

(n.) Saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense.

• drivel
• stringent
• aplomb
• epitome
• infringe

(n.) Poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity.

• aplomb
• stringent
• epitome
• infringe
• surmise

(v.) To think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess.

• surmise
• stringent
• aplomb
• epitome
• infringe

(adj.) Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste.

• stringent
• aplomb
• epitome
• infringe
• surmise

(adj.) Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part.

• intrinsic
• stringent
• aplomb
• epitome
• infringe

(v.) To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds.

• infringe
• stringent
• aplomb
• epitome
• surmise

(n.) A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality.

• epitome
• stringent
• aplomb
• infringe
• surmise

Marian Wright Edelman has never succumbed to ____________, but has instead remained a tireless advocate of children's rights since the 1960's.

• lassitude
• drivel

The large trees that surrounded the strange mansion ____________ our view of the building.

• occulted
• ameliorated

The sour odor of decay, stale air, and generations of living ____________ every corner of the old tenement.

• permeated
• precipitated