TKAMB Part 1 Vocab English 9

a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source

• Libel

• Asinine

• Dictum

• unfathomable

conducive to success; favorable

• Asinine

• provocation

• dictum

• Auspicious

causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial

• contentious

• waning

• malevolent

• Auspicious

a building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs

• contentious

• Mausoleum

• unfathomable

• provocation

have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.

• contentious

• Asinine

• Libel

• waning

extremely stupid or foolish.

• Asinine

• provocation

• unfathomable

• Auspicious

having or showing a wish to do evil to others

• contentious

• malevolent

• Mausoleum

• provocation

action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately

• malevolent

• Dictum

• contentious

• provocation

a false and typically malicious statement about a person

• libel

• dictum

• asinine

• auspicious

incapable of being fully explored or understood

• provocation

• unfathomable

• mausoleum

• waning