Week 13 SLA Vocab

Biased

Prejudiced, displaying partiality

Caustic

Corrosive, bitterly sarcastic

Decorum

Appropriate behavior or good manners

Dupe

To deceive or fool

Imminent

About to happen

Laudable

Praiseworthy

Transient

Passes quickly, short-lived

Aggrandize

To enlarge or increase, especially wealth, power, or reputation

Ameliorate

To improve or mitigate a situation

Deftness

Skill, acumen, manual dexterity

Estimable

Deserving respect, esteem, and admiration

Mercurial

Easily changeable, fickle

Satiate

To completely satisfy (with respect to hunger or appetite)

Timorous

Meek or timid

Supplant

To overtake or replace

Indefatigable

Cannot be made tired

Foment

To foster unrest or discontent

Extraneous

Irrelevant or superfluous

Venerate

To give a high degree of respect, may border on worship

Disparage

To belittle

Outstrip

To overtake or outrun