Level F: Unit 9 Vocabulary

(n.) one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience (also used like an adjective)

• egregious

• novice

• abate

• torpid

(n.) an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article)

• dilatory

• egregious

• anathema

• pretentious

(v.) to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence

• resuscitate

• supposition

• abate

• egregious

(adj.) deserving blame, worthy of condemnation

• abate

• recapitulate

• culpable

• equivocate

(n.) extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency

• penury

• avarice

• supposition

• equivocate

(adj.) conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)

• pretentious

• egregious

• adulation

• culpable

(n.) a greedy desire, particularly for wealth

• evanescent

• avarice

• egregious

• supposition

(adj.) done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious

• supposition

• recapitulate

• pretentious

• astute

(adj.) tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone

• anathema

• avarice

• slovenly

• dilatory

(adj.) unable to make up one's mind; hesitating

• irresolute

• penury

• dilatory

• adulation