Level D Unit 6 Vocabulary

credible

(adj.) believable

intricate

(adj.) complicated; difficult to understand

lucid

(adj.) easy to understand, clear; rational, sane

superfluous

(adj.) exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess

ghastly

(adj.) frightful, horrible; deathly pale

sardonic

(adj.) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

diligent

(adj.) hardworking, industrious, not lazy

tenacious

(adj.) holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent

incessant

(adj.) never stopping, going on all the time

posthumous

(adj.) occurring or published after death

prim

(adj.) overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish

impoverished

(adj.) poor, in a state of poverty, depleted

doleful

(adj.) sad; dreary

bondage

(n.) slavery; any state of being bond or held down

hamper

(v.) to hold back

taunt

(v.) to jeer at, mock; (n.) an insulting or mocking remark

atone

(v.) to make up for

defray

(v.) to pay for

hew

(v.) to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to

supplant

(v.) to take the place of, supersede