ACT/SAT vocabulary quiz review

To truncate or adbridge; to lessen, usually by cutting away from.

To cringe in fear; to shrink away.

A standard or rule by which something can be judged; a basis for judgment.

Fashion designs; clothes created by fashion designers.

A person or entity to whom money is owed.

A small opening as in a wall or rock face.

Lacking the least bit of courage; cowardly.

A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, expecially cubes.

Formed, bound, or characterized by curved lines.

One that depresses or restrains; a dulling or deadening influence.