VOCAB CARDS

AUTHORIZE (Ô' THA RĪZ)

• (V) To allow someone to do something
• Authorize:entitle as culprit:wrongdoer
• The owner of the company authorized me to
• to tour the factory, something most people aren't
• allowed to do.

DAWDLE (DÔD' UL)

• (V) to waste time when you should be doing something
• Dawdle:delay as dissect:take apart
• Don't sit there dawdling, doodling on your paper, when
• you are supposed to be doing your homework!

EXPEND (EK SPEND')

• (V) To use up something
• Expend:disburse as fatality:casualty
• When you are swimming, make sure not
• to expend your energy by sprinting the first
• few laps.

GULLIBLE (GUL' U BUL)

• (V) Easy to trick or fool
• Gullible:naive as illicit:illegal
• My little brother is so gullible that I
• could fool him into believing cats could fly.

IMMERSE (I MURS')

• (V) To dunk completely in a liquid
• Immerse:engross as inflammatory:provoking
• When the chicken we were cooking started to
• catch fire, we had to immerse it in cold water
• so it could cool down.

MEMORANDUM (MEM U RAN' DUM)

• (V) A note to remind someone of something
• Memorandum:reminder as pathetic:moving
• The teacher gave all of the students a
• memorandum for the upcoming test, so we could
• put the note in our binder and remember there is a test.

PERSEVERE (PUR SU VĒR)

• (V) To keep pursuing a goal even it gets hard to
• Persevere:pursue as prevaricate:equivocate
• Even though the girl had a hard time walking,
• she persevered in her goal to become a runner.

QUASH (KWÄSH)

• (V) To destroy, completely put down
• Quash:suppress as relish:gusto
• The little girl dreamed of becoming a famous
• swimmer, but her dreams were quashed when she
• was paralyzed in a car accident.

REMINISCE (REM U NIS')

• (V) to reflect on past memories
• Reminisce:remember as scour:scrub
• When we visit my great-grandma's house, she
• always starts to reminisce on her past days, and we
• get to hear her stories about her as a child.

TESTIMONIAL (TES' TU MŌ' NĒ UL)

• (N) a statement that benifits a product or person
• Testimonial:tribute as writhe: squirm
• The actress made a testimonial to a company that
• was sponsoring her by mentioning them during a
• speech when she won an award.