Vocab Set 4.2

make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable. ^__________

• Extenuating

• Substantiating

• Condescending

• Ameliorating

The ability to make quick, accurate, and intelligent decisions or judgments, especially in a particular domain.

• Aversion

• Acquiesce

• Acumen

• Multiplicity

Completely or directly opposed to something ________

• diametrically

• didactic

• deference

• elude

I would be ________ opposed to lengthening the school day, since I think it’s too long already.

• diametrically

• earnestly

• garishly

• prohibitively

not feeling or showing emotion ________

• nefarious

• sanctimonious

• salient

• impassive

using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. ________

• aspersions

• construing

• sanctimonious

• intuitive

The teacher’s perspective nature allowed him to ________ that there was something wrong with his student.

• Construe

• Prognosticate

• Intuit

• Acumen

Utterly bewilder or perplex ________

• mystified

• perseverated

• confounded

• extraneous

Optimistic or hopeful, especially in a difficult or challenging situation

• prattle

• sanguine

• amorphous

• facetious

The toddler incessantly ________ about his day, exhausting his friends and parents.

• prattled

• confounded

• unsullied

• fettered