Unit 4 Vocab Words

to provide a place for someone to stay; if you have a different opinion, to try and accept someone else’s opinion or change your own; to change things to fit what someone else wants

• Accommodate

• Buoyancy

• Capitulation

• Emigrate

the ability to float in air or water; the ability that water has to make things float; to feel happy, joyful, hopeful; the ability for prices to return to a good place after hard financial times

• Deliverance

• Interval

• Insufferable

• Buoyancy

to agree to something you have been against for a while; to accept defeat

• Emigrate

• Intrude

• Capitulation

• Scapegoat

feeling sympathy for someone else; caring for people, especially those who are suffering

• Conspicuous

• Compassionate

• Capitulation

• Mercurial

easy to notice, obvious; something that so clear that it’s worth noticing

• Insufferable

• Fatalist

• Courteous

• Conspicuous

 Not ashamed or embarrassed about something you’ve done, usually despite the fact that what you did is considered socially inappropriate or unacceptable.

• Threadbare

• Unabashed

• Ostentatious

• Meticulous

clothes or other objects made of cloth that are very thin or in bad condition because they are worn out from use

• Meticulous

• Ostentatious

• Threadbare

• Mercurial

N – someone who is blamed for something, usually when it isn’t their fault, or at least not entirely their fault

V –  to make someone to blame for something that went wrong, often to avoid taking the blame yourself

• Buoyancy

• Fatalist

• Rigor

• Scapegoat

working hard to make sure something is correct or done right; taking care to make sure things are correct

• Fatalist

• Rigor

• Interval

• Deliverance

something that looks fancy or expensive; the kind of object, clothing, or item that makes people think you are rich; acting in a way to make people think you are rich.

• Ostentatious

• Mercurial

• Insufferable

• Conspicuous