LA Fall Final Review

Acquiesced

To accept something reluctantly

Brittle

Hard but could break or shatter easily

Capillary

Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules

Cavort

To jump or dance around excitedly

Condolences

An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death

Depreciate

Diminishing in value over a period of time or to belittle something

Ecstatic

Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement

Emerge

To come out of something and come into view

Exasperation

A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance

Gradually

Slowly

Imputation

A charge or claim that someone has done something undesirable

Inconsequential

Insignificant

Inquire

Ask for information from someone

Instigate

To start something

Languor

The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness

Mammoth

A large extinct elephant, hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks

Manifest

Clear or obvious to the eye or mind

Marauders

A raider

Oblivious

Unaware of about what is happening

Parched

Dried out with heat

Parsimony

Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

Perish

Suffer death, typically in a violent, sudden, or untimely way

Pious

Devoutly religious

Precipitous

Dangerously high or steep OR done suddenly and without careful consideration

Predominant

The stronger

Prosperous

Successful in material items

Ransack

Go hurriedly through a place stealing things and causing damage

Reconciliation

The restoration of something

Retorted

To say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner OR to repay an insult or injury

Solvent

Having assets in excess OR the liquid in which a solute is dissolved to form a solution

Succor

Assistance and support in times of hardship and distress

Titanic

Of exceptional strength, size, or power

Tremulous

Shaking or quivering slightly

Truant

A student who stays away from school without leave or explanation

Utter

Complete; absolute OR making a sound with one’s voice

Vanish

To disappear

Waver

Shake with a quivering motion

Whim

A sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained

Wither

Become dry and shriveled, cease to flourish