Words to Know 1

sparing or moderate in eating and drinking

to approach and speak to someone

agreeable

hatred, repulsion

self-denying: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

hard-working

harsh, Spartan

devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite

to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.

superior status; prestige: The job has a certain cachet.

surrender

criticize

embarrassment or humiliation

a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.

cautious

proportionate

empathize

serving to compensate, make amends, redeeming

compromising: making or willing to make concessions

overlook wrong doing

believing

courteously yielding to another

harmful

draw a line around, describe

take exception

defame

belittle

dehydrate

without direction in life

long denunciation

shy

ramble

showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding

the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment

deceptive

various

disintegration

swell

strip, deprive

certain, unchanging in opinion

from many sources

to bloom

shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity

provoke

exaggerate

peculiar to a particular region

weaken

generate

boredom

known only by a few