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Vocab Unit 6 D D
Jenkins Vocabulary Unit 6 Definitions 9th Grade Level D
Question | Answer |
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Atone | v. to make up for |
Bondage | n. slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
Credible | adj. believable |
Defray | v. to pay for |
Diligent | adj. hardworking,industrious, not lazy |
Doleful | adj. sad, dreary |
Ghastly | adj. frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
Hamper | v. to hold back |
Hew | v. to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
Impoverished | adj. poor, in a state or poverty. depleted |
Incessant | adj. never stopping,going on all the time |
Intricate | adj. complicated; difficult to understand |
Lucid | adj. easy to understand, clear; rational, sane |
Posthumously | adj. occurring or published after death |
Prim | Adj. overly neat, precise, proper or formal; prudish |
Sardonic | adj. grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
Superfluous | adj. exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
Supplant | v. to take the place of, supersede |
Taunt | v. to jeer at, mock; n. an insulting or mocking remark |
Tenacious | adj. holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent |