Unit Three Vocabulary

Ambidextrous

Adj. – can use left and right hands equally well

Arid

Adj. - Dry

Ascertain

V. – To find out something, to discover

Benign

Adj. – Good, harmless

Contemptuous

Adj. – Disrespect, strong dislike, despise

Cynical

Adj. – suspicious, doubting

Expunge

V. – To erase

Furtive

Adj. – sly, sneaky

Inevitable

Adj. - unavoidable

Mortification

N. – humiliation, embarrassment

Pilgrimage

N. - Journey

Procure

V. – to obtain, to acquire, to get

Provocation

N. – a reason

Prowess

N. – a skill, or talent

Sordid

Adj. – scandalous, nasty

Squalid

Adj. – filthy, dirty

Succinct

Adj. – Short, brief

K.I.S.S Method

Taciturn

Adj. – Quiet, silent

Undulate

v. – To move in a wave-like motion

Wrathfully

Adv. – with outrage, angrily