Vocab quiz #4

To yield to; assume an office or dignity.

• Accede

• Brandish

• Explicit

To wave or flourish in a menacing or vigorous fashion.

• Brandish

• Deft

• Comprise

To include or contain; To be made up of.

• Comprise

• Destitute

• Deft

Skillful, nimble

• Deft

• Destitute

• Comprise

Deprived of the necessities of life; lacking in.

• comprise

• deft

• destitute

Definite, clearly stated.

• Explicit

• deft

• accede

To tear up by the roots; to destroy totally.

• extirpate

• ironic

• officious

Coming at a bad time; not appropriate.

• Inopportune

• ominous

• pinnacle

Suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens; given to irony, sarcastic.

• ironic

• musty

• inopportune

Stale, moldy; out-of-date.

• musty

• officious

• pinnacle