Vocab 3

4. to include; to cover.
7. the analogy he used was that she looked like a cow.
10. (adj.) not inclined to talk (Though Jane never seems to stop talking, her brother is quite taciturn.)
11. lacking liveliness, dull (The professor’s comments about the poem were surprisingly vapid and dull.)
12. undisciplined, lewd, lustful (Vicky’s wanton demeanor often made the college boys next door very excited.)
13. (n.) shrewdness, soundness of judgment (With remarkable sagacity, the wise old man predicted and thwarted his children’s plan to ship him off to a nursing home.)
15. (adj.) unclear, partially hidden (Because he was standing in the shadows, his features were obscure.)

1. (adj.) heinously villainous (Although Dr. Meanman’s nefarious plot to melt the polar icecaps was terrifying, it was so impractical that nobody really worried about it.)
2. (adj.) wanting harm to befall others (The malevolent old man sat in the park all day, tripping unsuspecting passersby with his cane.)
3. (n.) a perplexed, unresolvable state (Carlos found himself in a quandary: should he choose mint chocolate chip or cookie dough?)
5. (from logos, meaning word, speech, idea, reason)
6. (adj.) lacking color (Dr. Van Helsing feared that Lucy’s pallid complexion was due to an unexplained loss of blood.)
7. (adj.) existing everywhere, widespread (It seems that everyone in the United States has a television. The technology is ubiquitous here.)
8. (adj.) displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints (Marilee has always been fascinated by the licentious private lives of politicians.)
9. (v.) to scold, protest (The professor railed against the injustice of the college’s tenure policy.)
14. (v.) to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe’s mother admonished him not to ruin his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)