Gaby SETIABUDI
Ms. Stronks
ELA
January 21, 2016
Vocab #13
Ms. Stronks
ELA
January 21, 2016
Vocab #13
- Acquiescence
- Agreement or consent by silence or objection
- Her gestures made me believe she had just acquiescence.
- Agreement or consent by silence or objection
- Affliction
- State of pain, distress, or grief
- The death of her pet cause much affliction to others
- State of pain, distress, or grief
- Caste
- The heredity social clashes in Hinduism
- The students were learning about caste and the history behind it
- The heredity social clashes in Hinduism
- Criteria
- Standard of judgment or criticism
- The criteria for the essay made me work harder than I should
- Standard of judgment or criticism
- Elusive
- Difficult to find
- Everything I touch after I leave becomes elusive
- Difficult to find
- Formidable
- Causing fear
- Horror removes are type that cause formidable to people
- Causing fear
- Impassive
- Stoic, phlegmatic, apathetic
- My expression immediately became impassive after hearing those rumors
- Stoic, phlegmatic, apathetic
- Infallible
- Trustworthy or sure
- I was debating whether they were infallible or not
- Trustworthy or sure
- Invoke
- To call with earnest desire
- During class we were invoking God when we were praying for them.
- To call with earnest desire
- Obliquely
- In an oblique manner or direction
- The definition of oblique is to oblique in a manner or direction
- In an oblique manner or direction
- Ominous
- Portraying evil or harm
- Her expression showed an ominous vibe that killed everyone
- Portraying evil or harm
- Pensive
- Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
- The food made me pensive as I dreamt about that chocolate cake
- Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
- Prerogative
- An exclusive privilege or right
- The prerogative way let us get through without any troubles
- An exclusive privilege or right
- Venerable
- Extremely old or obsolete
- The historic building screamed out venerable by its architecture
- Extremely old or obsolete