Unit 9 Vocab.
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- regal
- royal, kinglike; fit for a king
- canvass
- to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions
- melancholy
- sad, gloomy, unhappy
- ratify
- to approve, give formal approval to, confirm
- parch
- to make dry or thirsty
- casual
- happenening by chance or on an irregular basis
- entice
- to attract, tempt
- vital
- having life, necessary to life
- gruesome
- horrible, revolting, ghastly
- persist
- to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- ordeal
- a difficult or painful experience
- stifile
- to smother, prevent from breathing
- puny
- of less than normal strength or size
- downtrodden
- treated unfairly
- quibble
- to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections
- bystander
- one who looks or observes from the outside
- graphic
- lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts
- flounder
- to thrash about in a clumsy way
- accelerate
- to speed up, cause to move faster
- erode
- to wear away gradually, eat away