Level F Unit 9 Vocab

praise or flattery that is excessive

• pretentious

• astute

• adulation

• penury

shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

• pretentious

• penury

• astute

• dilatory

tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone

• nebulous

• torpid

• culpable

• dilatory

to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

• egregious

• culpable

• equivocate

• avarice

unable to make up one's mind, hesitating

• penury

• irresolute

• equivocate

• nebulous

cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct

• nebulous

• culpable

• evanescent

• irresolute

extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency

• culpable

• recapitulate

• penury

• slovenly

to review a series of facts; to sum up

• pretentious

• recapitulate

• avarice

• nebulous

untidy, dirty, careless

• novice

• slovenly

• abate

• avarice

something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence

• resuscitate

• supposition

• penury

• equivocate