March Vocab

deride (v)

to ridicule and mock

censure (v)

to criticize sharply

gambol (v)

to frolic; to be playful

immolate (v)

to kill someone as a sacrificial victim

recondite (adj)

difficult to understand; profound

martinet (n)

a strict disciplinary; taskmaster

quagmire (n)

a swamp; a difficult situation

give (v)

to scoff

agape (adj)

open mouthed and suprised

carcinogen (n)

causing cancer

olfactory (adj)

pertaining to smell

imperious (adj)

domineering

grotesque (adj)

absurd; distorted

neologism (n)

a new word or expression

hackneyed (adj)

commonplace; overused

ive (suffix)

relating/tending to

ced and cess (roots)

yield/stop/go

pro (prefix)

for

ante (prefix)

before

trans (prefix)

across or through

mot (root)

to move