1. Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz 11/17

2. Unit 7 Vocabulary Gallant (adj.) – brave and noble.
The soldiers fought gallantly.
Fray (n.) – noisy fight.
The neighbors heard a fray happening next door.
Martial (adj.) – military.
The teacher was quite martial.
Exile (v.) – banish.
The traitor was exiled from the community
Eloquence (adj.) – speech that is graceful and persuasive.
Barack Obama spoke eloquently.

3. Unit 7 Vocabulary (cont.)
Fickle (adj.) – changeable.
Teenagers can be quite fickle.
Pensive (adj.) – deeply thoughtful.
The pastor’s message was quite pensive.
Vial (n.) – small bottle containing medicine or other liquids.
The doctor gave the sick child a vial of cough medicine.
Loathsome (adj.) – disgusting; detestable.
Cancer is a loathsome disease.
Dismal (adj.) – causing gloom or misery.
The pop quiz made the class feel dismal.

4. Unit 7 Vocabulary (cont.)
Scourge (n.) – a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
The scourge of mass employment.
Ambiguous (adj.) –lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct.
John’s text was quite ambiguous.
Haughty (adj.) – arrogant.
The haughty football player did not perform well Friday night.
Disperse (v.) – to break up and scatter in all directions; spread about; distribute widely.
The party dispersed once the cops arrived.
Penury (n.) – extreme poverty.
Sometimes we take for granted those in penury.

5. Unit 7 Vocabulary (cont.)
Remnants (n.) – what is left over; remainders.
The coroner used the remnants of the soldier to identify the victim.
Wayward (adj.) – headstrong.
Some teenagers are quite wayward in their beliefs.
Enjoined (v.) – ordered.
He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.
Garish (adj.) – tastelessly showy.
The outfit the woman was wearing was quite garish.
Purgatory (n.) – a temporary state of the dead; neither Heaven or Hell.
Once they die, some criminals will live in purgatory.