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Vocabulary Level E
Unit 4
ascertain
• Verb: to find out
• (syn) discover, determine, establish
bequeath
• Verb: to give or pass on as an inheritance
(syn) bestow, hand down, transmit
converge
• Verb: to move toward one point, approach nearer together
• (syn) meet, unite, intersect, merge
disperse
Verb: to scatter, spread far and wide
(syn) break up. dispel
School is out 2:22
Police disperses crowd
esteem• Verb: to regard highly• Noun: a highly favorable opinion or
judgment• (syn) (verb) respect, admire, honor, revere
invulnerable
• Adj.: not able to be wounded or hurt; shielded against attack
• (syn) immune, impervious, impregnableFort Knox
scrupulous
• Adj.: exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled
• (syn) meticulous conscientious
skulk
• Verb: to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding
• (syn) lurk, prowl
supercilious
• Adj.: proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority
• (syn) snobbish, patronizing, overbearing
venial
Adj.: easily excused; pardonable(syn) excusable, forgivable
expunge
panacea
omniscient
Omniscient PointOf view
nonchalant
malevolent
cogent
affiliated
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attainment