Vocab Grade 12 LTT

To give in to something. If your parents refuse to raise your allowance, you might try to argue until they ____.

• Avail

• Capitulate

• Trite

• Dissemble

doing something that they don't want to be seen doing.

• Strident

• Capricious

• Surreptitious

• Sedulous

showing deep-seated resentment

• Rancorous

• Fractious

• Disingenuous

• Assiduous

to mean the quality of being unafraid of danger or punishment

• Dissolute

• Temerity

• Unbraid

• Demur

"a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.

fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• Sordid

• Strident

• Consternation

• Estimable

to waver back and forth, unable to decide

• Consternation

• Pedantic

• Tacit

• Vacillate

people think very highly of themselves, more highly than of others. If your sister tends to act snobby and superior, you can describe her as __

• Disabuse

• Supercilious

• Prevaricate

• Obsequious

Something that is ___ touches you deeply. Watching a ___ YouTube video about baby penguins chasing their mothers, for example, might give you a lump in your throat.

• Poignant

• Sagacity

• Torpor

• Posterity

admired and respected because of your status or age.

• Edification

• Gratuitous

• Venerable

• Profligate

become less in amount or intensity

• Consternation

• Astute

• Amenable

• Abate