1. Vocabulary
Week 4

2. Aghast Adjective Struck with amazement
They sat aghast as their sister’s terrible parking put a three-foot scratch in the next car over.

3. Disarray Adjective In a state of disorder or mess
“I can’t leave the house tonight. My parents won’t let me because my room is in such disarray.”

4. Extrovert Noun A person who socializes and makes friends easily
Ethan, an avowed extrovert, always makes himself the center of a party; he tells jokes, drives conversations, and has never met a stranger.

5. Finagle Verb To get or arrange by trickery
Joe managed to finagle tickets to tomorrow’s sold-out concert!

6. Improvise Verb To perform without prior preparation
The computer systems are down? I guess we’ll have to improvise.

7. Outlandish Adjective Very odd, strange according to the standard
I have no idea where he gets these outlandish recipes, but the tilapia baked in fresh berries is really good!

8. Pittance Noun Small wages or allowance
He had no idea how he was going to pay his bills on the pittance he earned at the fast-food place.

9. Quell Verb To bring (a situation) to an end
The National Guard was brought in to quell the violent riot.

10. Shirk Verb To avoid or leave undone
If he put half as much effort into working as he did into trying to shirk all his responsibilities, we’d be ahead of schedule instead of behind.

11. Relentless Adjective Steady; unchanging; refusing to give up
Hercules’ relentless pursuit of redemption led to the destruction of a great number of dangers to the Mythological Greek world.