EB Academics Vocabulary Set A

to corrupt, make worse by addition of something of lesser value

• fortitude

• adulterate

• augment

• tentative

able to use both hands well; skillful

• gibe

• deploy

• opulent

• ambidextrous

to make larger, increase

• intimation

• guise

• augment

• pliable

deprived of; made unhappy through a loss

• bereft

• stolid

• warily

• insidious

to position or arrange; to utilize; form up

• fortitude

• gape

• unkempt

• deploy

stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill-humored

• guise

• verbatim

• dour

• adulterate

courage in facing difficulties

• fortitude

• augment

• pliable

• bereft

to stare with open mouth

• guise

• gape

• intimation

• stolid

to utter taunting words

• gape

• opulent

• stolid

• gibe

an external appearance, cover, mask

• guise

• insidious

• dour

• gibe