Vocab Words Jan 18

Question 1

cease to support or look after (someone)desert

Answer 1

abdandon

Question 2

make (someone) feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

Answer 2

abash

Question 3

totally bewildered or perplex

Answer 3

baffle

Question 4

dress up or decorate gaudily

Answer 4

bedizen

Question 5

express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize

Answer 5

commiserate

Question 6

recover one’s health and strength over a period of time after an illness or operation

Answer 6

convalesce

Question 7

make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive

Answer 7

daunt

Question 8

treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect; violate

Answer 8

desecrate

Question 9

the movement of the tide out to sea

Answer 9

ebb

Question 10

evoke or draw out (a response, answer or fact) from someone in reaction to one’s own actions or questions

Answer 10

elicit

Question 11

an exacr copy, especially of written or printed material

Answer 11

facisile

Question 12

creating or created by imagination

Answer 12

fictive

Question 13

a person’s manner of walking

Answer 13

gait

Question 14

the appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disainful

Answer 14

haughtiness

Question 15

subject (milk) to a process in which the fat droplets are emulsified and the cream does not separate

Answer 15

homogenize

Question 16

public shame or disgrace

Answer 16

ignominy

Question 17

not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

Answer 17

incongruous

Question 18

an attitude of belligerent nationalims, or a blind adherence to the rightness or virtue of one’s own nation, society, or group, simply because it is one’s own.

Answer 18

jingoist

Question 19

fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful

Answer 19

jocular