sadlier unit 8 vocab

Question 1

a promise or guarantee, often giving confidence or certainty about something.

Answer 1

assurance

Question 2

an institution for the care of children, elderly people, a place of safety

Answer 2

asylum

Question 3

to provide comfort or solace to someone who is distressed or upset

Answer 3

console

Question 4

to make or become larger or wider, to expand

Answer 4

dilate

Question 5

refuse, waste products

Answer 5

dross

Question 6

to gradually become smaller, fewer, or less; to decrease slowly over time

Answer 6

dwindle

Question 7

lacking of seriousness, disrespectful

Answer 7

flippant

Question 8

resistance to disease, freedom from a change or obligation

Answer 8

immunity

Question 9

to establish, set up, and organization for the promotion of learning

Answer 9

institute

Question 10

a debt, something disadvantageous

Answer 10

liability

Question 11

ridiculous, senseless

Answer 11

preposterous

Question 12

eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.

Answer 12

pugnacious

Question 13

furious, violently intense, unreasonably extreme, mad, infected with rabies

Answer 13

rabid

Question 14

a kingdom, a region or field of study

Answer 14

realm

Question 15

to make young again, to make new

Answer 15

rejuvenate

Question 16

to reward, pay, reimburse

Answer 16

remunerate

Question 17

thinly dispersed or scattered

Answer 17

sparse

Question 18

genuine, excellent, made of silver of standard fineness

Answer 18

sterling

Question 19

to undertake a risky or daring journey or course of action, to expose to danger

Answer 19

venture

Question 20

to twist out of shape, an abnormality

Answer 20

warp