9-A Vocabulary (Tykowski)

(noun) praise or flattery that is excessive

• adulation

• dilatory

• irresolute

• penury

(adj) shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

• astute

• adulate

• dilatory

• equivocate

(adj) tending to delay or procrastinate

• irresolute

• equivocate

• dilatory

• nebulous

(v) to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

• dilatory

• equivocate

• penury

• recaptiulate

(adj) unable to make up one's mind, hesistating

• irresolute

• nebulous

• penury

• adulation

(adj) cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color

• dilatory

• nebulous

• penury

• recapitulate

(n) extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency

• adulation

• dilatory

• irresolute

• penury

(v) to review a series of facts; to sum up

• penury

• nebulous

• astute

• recapitulate

(n) something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

• recapitulate

• penury

• supposition

• slovenly

(adj) untidy, dirty, careless

• dilatory

• supposition

• slovenly

• nebulous