vocab study

abrupt in manner or speech; gruff

• brusque

• avid

• concise

• demean

 to reject bluntly 2. to drive back 3. an abrupt setback in progress

• rebuff

• prevalent

• irascible

• guile

to cause a lowering of self-esteem; to lower in reputation or character; degrading

• demean

• pervade

• emulate

• proprietor

 to try to equal; to imitate

• affable

• emulate

• resilient

• replicate

an owner of a store or other business

• proprietor

• pilfer

• entreat

• guile

 commonly occuring; widely accepted or practiced

• prevalent

• pilfer

• proprietor

• pivot

 cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery

• guile

• demean

• affable

• avid

a conclusion based on guesswork or insufficient evidence; to form an opinion while lacking evidence

• conjecture

• encompass

• irascible

• demean

to free from a difficult or tangled situation

• extricate

• evade

• avid

• irascible

 quick tempered; irritable

• irascible

• affable

• tirade

• impel