Vocab Quiz- Part #2 Vocabulary List #2

give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure

• verge
• succumb
• ominous

bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• deplorable
• precarious
• proverbial

turn on an axis

• pivot
• culpability
• proverbial

a state of guilt

• ominous
• culpability
• succumb

characterized by intense emotion

• fervent
• ominous
• proverbial

the limit beyond which something happens or changes

• pivot
• ominous
• verge

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• ominous
• culpability
• proverbial

not secure; beset with difficulties

• deplorable
• precarious
• succumb

widely known and spoken of

• fervent
• verge
• proverbial