Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 10
Word List
- askance
(adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval - luminous
(adj.) emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating - attenuate
(v.) to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value - obsequious
(adj.) marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self–interested reasons - benign
(adj.) gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant - obtuse
(adj.) blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90° and 180°; not causing a sharp impression - cavil
(v.) to find fault in a petty way, carp; (n.) a trivial objection or criticism - oscillate
(v.) to swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver - charlatan
(n.) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack - penitent
(adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes; (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing - decimate
(v.) to kill or destroy a large part of - peremptory
(adj.) having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute - foible
(n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw - rebuff
(v.) to snub; to repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check - forgo
(v.) to do without, abstain from, give up - reconnoiter
(v.) to engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection - fraught
(adj.) full of or loaded with; accompanied by - shambles
(n.) a slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess - inure
(v.) to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure - sporadic
(adj.) occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order