Unit 4: Vocabulary Quiz

very harmful; poisonous or dangerous

• noxious

• blasphemy

• cantankerous

• temerity

to cheat someone out of money; scam

• absolution

• harangue

• bemoan

• bilk

well-supplied with something; full

• ennui

• replete

• debacle

• deride

profane talk about holy or sacred things; heresy or sacrilege

• implacable

• precursor

• blasphemy

• absolution

formal release from guilt or punishment; forgiveness

• absolution

• temerity

• anomaly

• talisman

argumentative and uncooperative; bad-tempered

• replete

• deride

• sojourn

• cantankerous

to verbally rip apart; mock/insult

• prodigious

• deride

• bilk

• replete

a disaster; failure or mess

• deride

• noxious

• debacle

• ennui

excessive or foolish boldness; nerve or rashness

• temerity

• coquette

• blasphemy

• noxious

dissatisfaction or exhaustion caused by boredom; fatigue or unenthusiastic

• ubiquitous

• bilk

• debacle

• ennui