9TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS MS. QUINTANA VOCAB 1 UNDERSTANDING MEANING

False

A detractor is someone to whom another person is attracted.

False

A maxim is the larger of two amounts.

False

A person's visage is that persons feelings about herself.

False

A vagabond is a person who lacks the necessities of life.

True

An impetus sets something into action.

True

An intermittent noise is one that keeps stopping and starting

False

An obligatory assignment is one that causes great hardship.

False

Destitution is the state of having all that one could ask for.

True

Flamboyance is lack of restraint in one's dress or manor.

False

If something is insuperable, it's parts cannot be separated from the whole.

True

To bewail something is to complain about it.

True

To emancipate someone is to release that person..

True

To extol someone is to show very high regard for that person.

True

To plumb a mystery is to understand it by thinking about it carefully.

True

To wheedle something from someone is to obtain it by cajoling that person into giving it.