11th Grade Vocabulary Quiz January 29, 2025

approach and speak to someone aggressively or insistently

• censure

• accost

• digress

• elicit

uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

• brevity

• austere

• laudable

• ambivalent

severely simple

• austere

• flippant

• didactic

• rancor

the attribute of being short or fleeting

• censure

• brevity

• austere

• satiate

harsh criticism or disapproval

• laudable

• didactic

• censure

• ambivalent

instructive, especially excessively

• accost

• digress

• didactic

• rancor

turn aside from the main subject of attention

• digress

• flippant

• ambivalent

• satiate

call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

• rancor

• accost

• laudable

• elicit

showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness

• flippant

• brevity

• austere

• rancor

worthy of high praise

• brevity

• flippant

• laudable

• didactic