TKAM - Vocabulary Quiz - Chapters 1-4

Assuage

• to make something unpleasant less severe

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• a formal pronouncement or decree

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

Unsullied

• understood or implied without being stated

• a personal possession

• not spoiled or made impure; clean

• to put an end to; suppress

Imprudent

• not showing due respect for another person; impertinent

• favorable or conducive to success

• understood or implied without be stated

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

Ambled

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• not showing due respect for another person; impertinent

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

• not spoiled or made impure; clean

Teemed

• a personal possession

• favorable or conducive to success

• be full of or swarming with

• to make something unpleasant less severe

Malevolent

• to put an end to; suppress

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

• not showing due respect for another person; impertinent

• having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Condescended

• spotlessly clean and fresh

• dull, uninteresting, tiresome

• to tear out; scoop out; overcharge

• show feelings of superiority; be patronizing

Sentimentality

• spiteful, showing ill will

• to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail

• excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia

• show feelings of superiority; be patronizing

Expound

• not regular, certain, or organized in its movement or behavior

• to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail

• spotlessly clean and fresh

• made less severe or burdensome

Erratic

• the list of pieces an actor, musician, etc., is ready to perform; the skills or accomplishments of a person or group

• anything having existence, either physical or mystical

• show feelings of superiority; be patronizing

• not regular, certain, or organized in its movement or behavior