Unit 4 Vocabulary

adj.) lying face down; inclined, likely

• prone

• recourse

• porous

• solicitous

adj.) indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed too many pleasures; apathetic

• blasé

• bolster

• porous

• promontory

v.) to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void

• annul

• nonentity

• ornate

• oust

v.) to feel or express regret or disapproval

• deplore

• nonentity

• ornate

• peruse

adj.) of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously

• frivolous

• obsess

• muster

• blasé

v.) to bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, to comprise, include; n.) a list of military personnel; a gather, accumulation

• muster

• mustard

• obsess

• recourse

n.) a person or thing of no importance

• ornate

• nonenttity

• obsess

• blasé

v.) to trouble, haunt, or fill the mind

• obsess

• oust

• muster

• porous

adj.) elaborately decorated; showily splendid

• ornate

• promontory

• blasé

• deplore

v.) to remove, drive out of a position or place

• oust

• promontory

• nonentity

• obsess