Vocabulary Lesson Review

Match the following

• To Irritate by rubbing

• Allusion

• To make less severe

• Chafe

• Composed or made up

• Consisted

• To give a right to

• Alleviate

• Implied reference to something familiar

• Entitle

Match the following

• Useless act or gesture

• Futility

• Savageness; Wildness

• Ferocity

• A curse or oath

• Imprecation

• Permanent; cannot be washed away

• Indelible

• Act with sudden energy, without thought

• Impetuous

Match the following

• To do away with; to remove

• Derive

• Related to change

• Concepts

• To come from a source; trace origin of

• Surge

• Ideas; things conceived in the mind

• Dispel

• A wavelike swell or sudden increase

• Transitional

Match the following

• To produce or originate; to manufacture

• Obliterate

• Inventiveness; cleverness

• Diversity

• State of having different forms or type

• Generate

• A quick reply, as to an accusation

• Retort

• To cancel, erase, or wipe out

• Ingenuity

Match the following

• Lack of freedom; under power of another

• Taunt

• To make fun of; to sneer

• Savagery

• Bitter, caustic, and ironic language

• Sarcastic

• To remember; to give consideration

• Subjugation

• Cruelty; burality

• Recollect

Match the following

• Get possession of; aquire

• Precise

• Built

• Procure

• Peaceful; serene; quiet

• Pallid

• Exact; clear; well-defined

• Erected

• Lacking color; pale

• Tranquil

Match the following

• Obvious; readily visible or intelligible

• Patent

• State of not letting light through

• Institute

• To set up; to initiate

• Grimy

• Deeply soiled; dirty

• Opacity

• Anticipated measure or amount

• Expectancy

Match the following

• Introductory action; self-generated

• Termination

• Carelessly spread out

• Initiative

• Limit; end; final phase

• Sprawling

Match the following

• To speak against or scold

• Endow

• To give to; to provide with

• Revile

• Something set aside for safekeeping

• Deposit