Unit 7
Practice on Unit 7 vocabulary words
Terms
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- unassuming
- not putting on airs, unpretentious; modest
- parry
- a defensive movement in fencing and other sports
- tawdry
- showy and flashy but lacking in good taste
- attribute
- a quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something
- predatory
- preying on, plundering, or piratical
- exotic
- foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual
- stance
- a way of holding the body;an attitude or position on an issue
- excise
- to remove by cutting
- menial
- a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks
- wallow
- to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance
- ravage
- to destroy, lay waste, ruin
- haggard
- thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking
- jaunty
- lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance
- juncture
- a joining together;the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time
- ravage
- ruinous damage
- doctrine
- a belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of suxh teachings or principls
- menial
- lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity
- attribute
- to assign to, credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from
- waver
- to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision
- belittle
- to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value
- turncoat
- a person who switches to an opposing side or party
- excise
- an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a commodity or service
- parry
- to ward off, fend off, deflect, evade, avoid
- convey
- to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known; to transfer ownership or title to
- acme
- the highest point
- wallow
- a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state or moral or physical collapse