Vocabulary - 12

1. Zest: zeal

2. Demonstrate: show

3. Obstruction: hindrance

4. Slanting: bending

5. Extinct: dead

6. Tremendous: very much, huge

7. Aspirations: intense desires

8. Evade: avoid, escape

9. Overhear: listen in

10. Pretend: make believe

11. Repeal: cancel, revoke

12. Owe: be indebted, be in debt

13. Slay: to kill violently

14. Lay: give

15. Deteriorate: get worse, go down

16. Intellectual: thinker, scholar

17. Redress: put right (from wrong), compensate for

18. Censure: codemn, criticise, blame

19. Vertex: the highest point, apex, the top

20. Deserve: to be worthy of