LA vocab quiz 4
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- dilapidated
- old and shabby
- impotent
- powerless
- delirious
- extremely excited and happy
- vagabond
- a person, usually without a permanent home, who wanders from place to place
- devoted
- having great love for someboday or someone
- enmity
- feelings of hatred towards somebody
- extolling
- to praise somebody or something very much
- boisterously
- being loud and rough
- devotion
- great love, care, and support for somebody or something
- deceit
- dishonest behavior that is intended to make somebody believe something that is not true
- devotee
- a person who admires and is very enthusiastic about someone or something
- cowered
- crouched and trembled in fear
- valiant
- brave and determined
- endorse
- to say publicly that you support a person or statement
- marauding
- going around a place in search of things to steal or someone or something to attack
- cudgel
- a short club
- voracious
- really hungry or wanting to eat a large amount of food
- consolation
- comfort
- devoted
- having great love for something or somebody and being loyal to them
- abut
- to be next to something or to have one side touching the side of something
- desolate
- empty or barren
- elaborate
- detailed
- metamorphosis
- a process in which somebody or something changes completely into something different
- gracious
- kind, polite, and generous, especially to someboday of a lower social position
- diffidently
- lacking confidence in one's own ability
- boasted
- to speak of with excessive pride
- dowdy
- not stylish, drab, old-fashioned
- gallant
- brave
- docile
- quiet and easy to control
- debris
- pieces of wood, metal, brick, etc. that are left after something has been destroyed
- breaching
- to not keep an agreement or not keep a promise
- immensely
- enormously
- comestible
- edible or somthing edible
- chronicle
- to record events in the order in which they happened
- patrol
- to watch over carefully
- diligently
- showing care and effort in your work or duties
- peril
- serious danger
- eloquent
- able to express a feeling
- hovel
- a house or room that is not fit to live in because it is dirty or in very bad condition
- motif
- a subject, an idea or a phrase that is repeated and developed in a work of literature
- assent
- an agreement
- diminutive
- very small
- pounce
- to move suddenly forwards in order to attack or catch someone or somebody