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Vocabulary 13
Using Context Clues
Adept
• Very skilled; proficient; expert
Axiom
• A self-evident truth; a universally accepted principle or rule
Complement
• Something that completes or makes perfect; either of two parts or things that constitute a whole; counterpart; full quantity or amount
Confound
• To perplex or amaze; confuse; to throw into confusion or disorder; to contradict or refute
Cumulative
• Increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions
Delve
• To carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like
Diligent
• Constant in effort to accomplish something; done or pursued with persevering attention; painstaking; industrious; untiring; tireless
Superlative
• Of the highest kind or order; excessive or exaggerated, as in language
Tantalize
• To torment with the sight or prospect of something desired that cannot be reached or attained; tease by arousing expectations
Unerring
• Not going astray or missing the mark; undeviatingly accurate; unfailingly right or appropriate
Vocabulary 14
Compound Words
Backlash
• An antagonistic reaction to an earlier action
Benchmark
• A standard in measuring or judging a quality or characteristic
Common sense
• Sound judgment
Gridlock
• Complete lack of movement or progress
Outsource
• Send work to an outside resource
Overkill
• More of something than is necessary or appropriate
Superhighway
• An expressway that has four or more lanes for traffic
Tip-off
• Confidential disclosure
Underdog
• One that is expected to lose
Wind chime
• Hanging decoration that makes noise when there is a breeze
Vocabulary 15
The Latin Roots frag and fract
Defray
• To undertake the payment of costs or expenses
Fractional
• Comprising a part or the parts of a unit; comparatively small; inconsiderable or insignificant
Fractious
• Peevish, irritable, or quarrelsome; refractory or unruly; testy, petulant; snappish; touchy; stubborn; difficult
Fragment
• A small part broken off or detached; to break or separate something into small pieces
Frail
• Physically weak or delicate; easily broken or destroyed
Fritter
• To reduce or squander little by little
Infraction
• A violation of a law or rule
Infringe
• To trespass or encroach on; to violate or go beyond the limits of
Osprey
• A large fish-eating bird
Refractory
• Obstinately resistant to authority or control; resistant to treatment