EN9_Vocabulary List 5

Young and inexperienced; immature.

• callow
• voracious
• wane
• venerate

A person living during the same period as another.

• contemporary
• wane
• callow
• voracious

Doubtful of the sincerity of others’ motives; skeptical.

• cynical
• callow
• contemporary
• wane

A ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people.

• despot
• contemporary
• cynical
• callow

1. To pronounce clearly. 2. To state, to announce.

• enunciate
• cynical
• despot
• contemporary

Anything that gets in the way; an obstacle.

• impediment
• despot
• enunciate
• cynical

1. To make poor. 2. To take away

• impoverish
• enunciate
• impediment
• despot

indulging in ease; avoiding exertion; lazy

• indolent
• sagacious
• impoverish
• enunciate

Showing sound judgment; wise.

• sagacious
• impoverish
• indolent
• indolent

Worldly; not connected with a church or religion.

• secular
• indolent
• sagacious
• impoverish