1st 9 Week Exam Vocabulary

to gradually wear away

• Authentic

• Erode

• Incredulous

• Grim

to express sorrow, mourning, or regret

• indignity
• devastated
• reproach
• lamented

to express disapproval or disappointment

• reproach
• lamented
• contradict
• dialogue

an embarrassing mistake

• blunder
• dwell
• desolate
• humble

occurring afterward or as a result

• ensuing

• sinews

• cinders

• struggling

skeptical, showing disbelief

• Homage

• Maul

• Authentic

• Incredulous

crushed by grief

• desolate
• humble
• lofty
• hierarchy

a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others usually with generous donations of money for good causes

• charitable

• philanthropist

• flung

• lurched

an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster

• Authentic

• Bestow

• Deceased

• Catastrophe

belonging to one by birth

• native
• caste
• adorn
• distinguished