9th Grade Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz

brief and to the point

• Tantalize

• Terse

• Feint

• Expulsion

average, ordinary, undistinguished

• Lucrative

• Dissolute

• Mediocre

• Compensate

firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back

• Dissolute

• Unflinching

• Mediocre

• Alien

bringing in money; profitable

• Lucrative

• Illegible

• Erratic

• Sully

difficult or impossible to read

• Illegible

• Terse

• Unflinching

• Adjourn

food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose

• Fodder

• Jeer

• Compensate

• Tantalize

a citizen of another country; foreign, strange

• Alien

• Illegible

• Subjugate

• Proliferate

having a pleasing appearance

• Expulsion

• Mediocre

• Illegible

• Comely

to conquer by force, bring under complete control

• Expulsion

• Proliferate

• Compensate

• Subjugate

loose in one’s morals or behavior

• Lucrative

• Unflinching

• Dissolute

• Erratic