Vocabulary List #14 23-24

Something that discourages or prevents from acting by fear or consideration of unpleasant consequences.

• deterrent

• protagonist

• spacious

• torment

Mr. Porecca acted as a ____________ and the children stopped throwing the pencils at Mr. Yack.

• deterrent

• ravenous

• gigantic

• epitome

A person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class.

• epitome

• urgency

• antagonist

• zed

With her many degrees in English, Mrs. Celsi is the __________ of an English teacher.

• epitome

• inundate

• urgency

• gregarious

Greater in size than the usual or expected.

• gigantic

• inundate

• epitome

• protagonist

The crowd was so _____________ that it packed the stadium to capacity.

• gigantic

• deterrent

• simultaneous

• bewildered

To overwhelm.

• inundate

• urgency

• ravenous

• visual

To ____________ the opponent, the fighter kept delivering punches to the body.

• inundate

• gigantic

• antagonist

• relinquish

Extremely hungry; voracious.

• ravenous

• protagonist

• epitome

• Pizza Pizza

Because Darla was so ______________, she devoured her entire steak dinner.

• ravenous

• antagonist

• inundate

• deterrent