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Period 4 Final Exam Vocabulary

Jackie's and Amanda's and Louise's twenty words. You must know all 60 words for the exam.

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Invincibleadj: too powerful to be defeated
Mandatoryadj: required by law or rules
Evadeverb: escape or avoid by tricky
Browseverb: looking at object but not specific
Casualtynoun: a person killed or injured in war or acciedent
Lurkverb: (of person or animal) to be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something
Imploreverb: beg someone earnestly
Gruelingadj: extremely tiring
Orthodoxadj: traditionally accepted as right or true; people's view and religion
Hybridadj: mixed character
Rantverb: speak or shout at length in a wild
Resumeverb: begin to do or pursue (something) again after a pause or interruption
Uprightadj: vertical
Devourverb: eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly
Customaryadj: normal, follow the tradition
Infuriateverb: make someone extremely angry and impatient
Notifyverb: inform someone of something in manner
Legitimateadj: conforming to law or to rules
Agitateverb: make someone to troubled or nervou
Bewilderverb: cause someone to become confused
tamperverb: to interfere with cause of damage
to bad mouthidiom: to talk back with rudeness
neglientadj: failing to take proper care
poised:adj: having a composed and self-assured manner
enthrallverb: capturing the fascinated attention of
to count on:idiom: to trust someone to do something for you
accelerate:verb: begin to move more quickly
vicious:adj: wild and dangerous to people
docile:adj: ready to accept control or instruction
to pay off:idiom: finish paying the payments
haggle:verb: dispute or bargain persistley
aspire:verb: direct one’s hopes or ambitions toward achieving something
acknowledge:verb: accept or admit the existence of or truth
hand me downs:idiom: to bring down to the next person, like generations but clothes to pass on
allegeverb: claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically without proof that this case.
pamper:verb: indulge with every attention, comfort, kindness, spoil
saganoun: a long story of heroic achievements
to let up:idiom: to reduce pressure
advocate:noun: a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy
modify:verb: to make partial or minor changes to (something) typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme
to hit the booksidiom: to study, especially with concentrated effort
to know the ropesidiom: to understand how to do something
a loose cannonidiom: a person who cannot be completely trusted
to warm up to somethingidiom: to become interested
to pull the plugidiom: to prevent from happening or continuing
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bushidiom: its better to have a lessber but certain advantage than the possiblilty of a greater one that may come to nothing
swelterverb: to suffer from oppressive heat
to break oout in somethingidiom: to begin showing a rash or other skin disorder
apprehendverb: to take into custody; arrest
bizarreadj: strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
crucialadj: extremely significant or important
to drop inidiom: to visit briefly
aloofadj: distant physically or somotionally; reserved and remote
exoticadj: from another part of the world; foreign
indifferentadj: having no particular interest or concern
to eat outidiom: to eat a meal away from home
barterverb: to trade goods or services without the exchange of money
confiscateverb: to seze provate property fro the public treasury
ultimateadj: being last in a series, process, or progression
to tire outidiom: to become exhausted



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