Vocab Quiz 1 grade 9

Absorbent

Able to soak up material very easily

Absorbing

The process of taking in a substance, OR info and something extremely interesting

Abyss

A bottomless canyon of sorts

Allay

To calm or put fears at rest

Anonymous

An unknown identity.

Concede

Surrender or admit something is true that you at first said wasn’t.

Curtail

Reduce something or cut short.

Daunt

Make someone feel intimidated or is intimidating.

Descry

Catch sight or notice something

Devastate

Cause someone severe grief or destroy and ruin something

Dilate

Make or become wider or bigger

Dissension

Disagreement that leads to chaos

Epic

A long poem that is grand.

Erroneous

Wrong or incorrect

Insinuate

Hinting something bad indirectly

Pensive

Reflecting deep or serious in thought

Recede

Move back from an original position.

Respite

A short period of rest or relief from something difficult.

Subsist

Maintain or support oneself, barely staying alive.

Vagrant

A person who has goes from place to place and lives by asking for money or food.

Affect

Make a difference to.

Aversion

A strong dislike or a person or thing that arouses strong feelings of dislike

Chagrin

Distress or embarrassment at failing something or being humiliated.

Discriminate

Make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of ethnicity, sex, or disability, or to differentiate.

Effect

A change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Elicit

Evoke or draw out a response, answer, or fact from someone in reaction to one's own actions or question.

Elusive

difficult to find, catch, or achieve.

Entail

Involve something as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.

Fallow

A land left unsown to restore fertility.

Hazardous

Risky, dangerous

Illicit

Forbidden by laws, rules, custom, or simply illegal.

Legendary

Remarkable enough to be famous/well-known or of described in, or based on legends.

Ludicrous

So foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous.

Mercenary

Concerned with making money at the expanse of ethics.

Nether

Lower in position, or under of an area such as the underworld.

Odious

Extremely unpleasant, or repulsive

Provisional

Arranged, or existing for present, possibly to be changed later.

Tumultuous

Making a loud, confused noise or uproarious.

Usurp

Take a position of power or important unlawfully or by force.

Vestige

A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.