LESSON SIX VOCABULARY GRADE 10 CREDENCE NOUN Surprisingly

LESSON SIX VOCABULARY GRADE 10

CREDENCE NOUN • Surprisingly, Shayna’s teacher gave credence to her story about how she lost her homework.

COLLATE VERB • Before he began his delivery route, the mailman collated his deliveries to match the order of the streets he would visit.

CONNOISSEUR NOUN • The chef watched nervously as the connoisseur tasted the soup.

ENIGMA NOUN • Mona Lisa’s smile is an enigma because no one knows the thoughts behind her inscrutable expression.

GENTEEL ADJECTIVE • A genteel host would never ask guests to prepare and serve their own dinner.

OFFICIOUS ADJECTIVE • I wish my officious sister would stop telling me how to run my life.

FETID ADJECTIVE • The gym teacher told students to remove the fetid heaps of dirty clothes from their lockers and take the mess home.

JAUNTY ADJECTIVE • My three-year-old always walks in a jaunty manner when I put him in that sailor suit.

CONDONE VERB • After hearing about the man’s starving family, most found it easy to condone his theft of the food.

TORPOR NOUN • The torpor of the audience was evidence of the comedian’s lack of talent.

ENTHRALL VERB • The television enthralled the villagers, who had never before seen such technology.

DILETTANTE NOUN • The dilettante felt that his superficial knowledge of art qualified him to judge the artist’s work.

VENAL ADJECTIVE • During the war, the queen worried about having venal subjects who would betray her for a high-enough reward.

NUANCE NOUN • The sharpest listeners detected a nuance in the speaker’s tone that revealed her opinion.

CULT NOUN • To join the cult, recruits had to shave their heads and walk over burning coals.