Quarter 4 Vocabulary Study Guide

the act of overseeing or managing.

• superintendence

• administration

• supervision

• management

a strong, heavy cloth used for making sails, tents, etc.

• canvas

• silk

• nylon

• cotton

having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

• cryptic

• transparent

• obvious

• clear

persisting tirelessly.

• indefatigable

• exhausted

• temporary

• lethargic

reserved or uncommunicative in speech.

• taciturn

• loquacious

• verbose

• garrulous

an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

• utopia

• dystopia

• paradise

• heaven

the quality of being perpendicular; right angles.

• perpendicularity

• parallelism

• obliqueness

• tangentiality

a statement that contradicts itself but might be true.

• contradiction

• illusion

• paradox

• fallacy

the action of making use of and benefiting from resources.

• utilization

• exploitation

• waste

• neglect

the state or character of being malign; malevolence.

• malignity

• benevolence

• indifference

• amity