Vocab #10

Noun: a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc.

Noun: a person, thing, idea, etc., for which such a natural liking or attraction is felt.

Noun: relationship by marriage or by ties other than those of blood

Noun: inherent likeness or agreement; close resemblance or connection

Verb: to place in proper or desired order; marshal

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Napoleon ______ his troops for battle.

Verb: to cloth with garments, especially of an ornamental kind; dress up; deck out

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She _____ herself in furs and diamonds.

Noun: order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle.

Noun: military force, especially a body of troops

Noun: a large and impressive grouping or organization of things

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He couldn't dismiss the _____ of facts.

Noun: regular order or arrangement; series

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An ______ of figures.

Noun: a large group, number, or quantity of people or things

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An impressive ____ of scholars; an imposing _____ of books.

Adj: extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless

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An _____ explorer.

Adj: extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly iventive

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An _____ vision of the city's bright future.

Adj: recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen

Adj: lively; unrestrained; uninhibited

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An _____ interpretation of her role.

Adj: friendly; agreeable

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A ______ atmosphere.

Adj: fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial

Adj: of or befitting a feast; festive

Verb: to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend

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He would not _____ to discuss the matter with us.

Verb: to condescend to give or grant

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He _____ no reply.

Verb: Obsolete. to condescend to accept.

Adj: tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory

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A _______ remark.

Noun: a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur

Noun: Archaic. a person dedicated to sensual enjoyment

Adj: excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please

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____ eater.

Adj: requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking

Verb: to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed by with)

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He _____ himself with all the guests.

Verb: to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does

Verb: to vary or vacillate between differing beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc.

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He ______ regularly between elation and despair.

Verb: to cause to move to and fro; vibrate

Verb: to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange

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To ____ blows; to _____ words.

Verb: to throw or strike to and fro or from side to side, as a ball in tennis

Verb: to circulate freely

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To _____ gossip.

Adj: (of legs) having a bend or crook outward; bowed

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A new method for correcting _____ legs.

Noun: an early form of tennis

Noun: Obsolete. a hockey or shinny stick

Verb: to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate

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The morale of the soldiers _____, and they were unable to fight.

Verb: to diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance, integrity, etc.

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The debate ____ into an exchange of insults.

Verb: to cause degeneration in; bring about a decline, deterioration, or reversion in.

Adj: having fallen below a normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded

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A ____ king.

Adj: having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind

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A ______ vine

Adj: characterized by or associated with degeneracy

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______ times.

Noun: a person who has declined, as in morals or character, from a type or standard considered normal

Noun: a person or thing that reverts to an earlier stage of culture, development, or evolution

Adj: capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.

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The medicine is _____ in stopping a cough.

Adj: of or pertaining to horseback riding or horseback riders

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_____ skill.

Adj: mounted on horseback

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_______ knights.

Adj: representing a person mounted on a horse

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An _____ statue

Adj: pertaining to or composed of knights or mounted warriors

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An ____ code of honor.

Adj: of or pertaining to the ancient Roman equites

Noun: a person who rides horses

Noun: an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year

Verb: to strip off the skin or outer covering of

Verb: to criticize or scold with scathing severity

Verb: to deprive or strip of money or property

Adj: domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing

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An ____ manner; an _____ person

Adj: urgent; imperative

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______ need.

Adj: wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious

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His failures made him ______ toward those who were successful.

Adj: evil; harmful; injurious

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A _____ inclination to destroy the happiness of others.

Verb: to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes

Verb: to remove unreasonable elements from

Verb: to make rational or conformable to reason

Verb: to treat or explain in a rational or rationalistic manner

Verb: to invent plausible explanations for acts, opinions, etc., that are actually based on other causes

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He tried to prove that he was not at fault, but he was obviously ______.

Verb: to soften in feeling, temper, or determination; become more mild, compassionate, or forgiving

Verb: to become less severe; slacken

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The winds _____.

Verb: Obsolete. to cause to slacken; abate

Verb: Obsolete. to abandon; relinquish