QUIZ vocab 2

Definitions

1. Speech or writing without rhyme or meter

2. Thoughts are interested are directed inward.

3. Upset, overthrow, ruin

4. Change/ make false

5. Excessively willing to yield, submissive.

6. To twist or bend out of shape

7. Reply quickly, sharply, reply in accusation 2. Quick, witty

8. Twists and turns 2. Deceitfully, tricky

9. Turn away 2. Prevent

10. Stubbornly doing something rather than with reason

11. Hardship, misfortune

CHALLENGE WORDS:

wrong act, illegal

12. Influenced by someone taste, opinion, feelings

13. Bind, bundle

14. Become less violent

15. Dizziness, from heights

Whirling liquid air mass

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Words:

·      Subvert

·      Subservient

·      Contort

·      Distort

·      Retort

·      Tortious

·      Adversity

·      Avert

·      Introvert

·      Perverse

·      Prose

·      Subjective

·      Subside

·      Tort

·      Truss

·      Vertigo

·      Vortex 

vocab pics lesson 2

Contort

distort

retort

tortious

adversity

avert

introvert

perverse

Subservient

subvert

Vocabulary Lesson 2 Dec. 2011

Vocabulary Lesson 2 Dec. 2011

·      Subvert: upset, overthrow, ruin

·      Subservient: excessively willing to yield, submissive.

·      Contort: to twist or bend out of shape

·      Distort: change/ make false

·      Retort: 1. Reply quickly, sharply, reply in accusation 2. Quick, witty

·      Tortious: 1. Twists and turns 2. Deceitfully, tricky

·      Adversity: hardship, misfortune

·      Avert: 1. Turn away 2. Prevent

·      Introvert: thoughts are interested are directed inward.

·      Perverse: stubbornly doing something rather than with reason

·      Prose: speech or writing without rhyme or meter

CHALLENGE WORDS:

·      Subjective: influenced by someone taste, opinion, feelings

·      Subside: become less violent (BAJALE)

·      Tort: wrong act, illegal

·      Truss: bind, bundle

·      Vertigo: dizziness, from heights

·      Vortex: whirling liquid air mass

Vocabulary Chap. 1

Vocabulary Chap. 1

1.     Percussion: striking, hit

B. Instrument that makes sound when hit.

2.     Perennial: long lasting

B. Continue. Keep going

       3.    Permeate:  spread in the atmosphere.

       4.    Preserve: maintain

       5.    Defer: stop, hold back

       6.    Dilatory: stop, hold back

       7.    Elation: positivity

       8.    Infer: Available evidence makes final conclusion  

              B. guess

       9.    Contend: to engage in situation

      10. Intent: purpose

* Détente: political situation dry relationship

* Portend: sign of warning