Vocabulary Lesson 1

To express deep regret or sorrow over

• Bewail

• Detraxt

• Extol

• Flamboyant

1. Without resources or possessions, especially the necessities of life

2. Lacking; devoid of

• Extol

• Destitute

• Detract

• Plumb

To take away, especially from the value, beauty or importance of

• Emancipate

• Bewail

• Detract

• Wheedle

To set free from slavery; to liberate

• Vagabond

• Emancipate

• Visage

• Impetus

To praise highly

• Obligatory

• Maxim

• Insuperable

• Extol

Excessively showy; unrestrained

• Plumb

• Extol

• Bewail

• Flamboyant

1. A driving force; anything that causes an action.

2. Increased activity resulting from a driving force.

• Impetus

• Vagabond

• Maxim

• Bewail

Incapable of being overcome or defeated.

• Wheedle

• Visage

• Insuperable

• Emancipate

Not continuous; happening at intervals

• Plumb

• Visage

• Extol

• Intermittent

A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying

• Bewail

• Visage

• Maxim

• Detract