Words taken from Improving Vocabulary Skills 3rd Edition by Nist and Mohr

Please provide definitions and example sentences.



Chapter 13
Curtail
Devastate
Digress
Incentive
Incorporate
Indispensable
Intermittent
Rigor
Squander
Succumb

Chapter 14
Alleviate
Benefactor
Covert
Cynic
Demise
Infamous
Intrinsic
Revulsion
Speculate
Virile

Chapter 15
Abstain
Affiliate
Agnostic
Aspire
Benevolent
Deficit
Dissent
Diversion
Lucrative
Mandatory

Chapter 16
Charisma
Contemporary
Contend
Conversely
Extrovert
Poignant
Prevalent
Proponent
Quest
Traumatic

Chapter 17
Congenial
Flippant
Impasse
Perception
Prompt
Prone
Rapport
Rationale
Relentless
Reprisal

Chapter 18
Cor, cour
Di, du-
-dom
-fy
Il-, im-
-ish
Magni-, magn-
Phob-
Pro-
Psych-, pscycho-