Lit./ LA- Unit 12- Vocab.

Question 1

Overjoyed, jubilant, ecstatic, “tickled pink”

Answer 1

Elated

Question 2

Persisting, chronic, “dyed-in-the-wool”

Answer 2

Inveterate

Question 3

To suppress, pacify, squelch, quash, crush

Answer 3

Quell

Question 4

A holocaust, wildfire

Answer 4

Conflagration

Question 5

To ponder, reflect, mull over, muse

Answer 5

Ruminate

Question 6

Lenient, permissive, tolerant, liberal

Answer 6

Indulgent

Question 7

Stately, dignified, exalted, venerable

Answer 7

August

Question 8

Covert, furtive, surreptitious, stealthy

Answer 8

Clandestine

Question 9

Nighttime, under cover of darkness

Answer 9

Nocturnal

Question 10

Insensitive, unsympathetic, thick-skinned

Answer 10

Callous

Question 11

Still, inert, motionless, dormant, tranquil

Answer 11

Quiescent

Question 12

Lasting, permanent; unforgettable

Answer 12

Indelible

Question 13

Irritating, stinging, bitter, caustic

Answer 13

Acrid

Question 14

Perceptible, actual, evident, palpable

Answer 14

Tangible

Question 15

A scruple, qualm, misgiving, contribution

Answer 15

Compunction

Question 16

Penetrating, cutting, telling, acute

Answer 16

Trenchant

Question 17

Unexpressed, unvoiced, understood, implicit

Answer 17

Tacit

Question 18

To forswear, recant; to abstain from

Answer 18

Abjure

Question 19

A cliché, truism

Answer 19

Platitude

Question 20

Inapplicable, immaterial, beside the point

Answer 20

Irrelevant