Voacbulary Unit 11 Flashcards
What means coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time?
Belated
What means to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe?
Appease
What means causing or involving calamity; disastrous?
Calamitous
What means to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority?
Cite
What means conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste?
Conventional
What means a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like?
Decoy
What means to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate?
Delve
What means to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession?
Ensue
What means dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior?
Gallantry
What means to make known; tell; relate; disclose?
Impart
What means using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic?
Judicious
What means to settle as an intermediary between parties; reconcile?
Mediate
What means surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature?
Milieu
What means freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre?
Outlandish
What means to hear (speech or a speaker) without the speaker’s intention or knowledge?
Overhearing
