Unit9*
Terms
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- casual
- (adj.) happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal; Ant:accidental; Syn: formal
- ratify
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- ordeal
- (n.) a difficult or painful experience, a trial;Sy: test;Ant:plesure
- gruesome
- (adj.) horrible, revolting, ghstly; Syn:groy;Ant: pleasant
- regal
- (adj) royal, kinglike; fit for a king;Syn: majestic; Ant: lowly
- graphic
- (adj.) lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts; Syn: lively;Any:dull
- entice
- (v.) to attract, tempt; Syn: lure; Ant: nauseate
- erode
- (v.) to wear away gradually, eat away; Syn:corrode; Ant: nuture
- stifle
- (v.) to smother pervantfrom brething; to hold back or choke off; syn: strangle; ant: nurture
- persist
- (v.) to continue steadily in a cuorse of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- vital
- (adj.) having liife, living necessary to life essential; key crucial;Syn: inspensable; Ant:nonessatial
- flunder
- (v.) to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way;Syn: wallow
- canvass
- (v.) to go though an area in order to procure votes, sale, or opoins; to go over in detail, to discause;Syn: poll
- puny
- (adj.) of lessthan normal strength or size; of no importance; syn: undersized;ANT: robust
- quibble
- to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raisiingSyn:nitpick; minor objections;(n) a petty abjection
- melancholy
- (adj.) sad, gloomy, unhappy;(n.) sadness, gloominess;Syn:(adj.) depressed;Ant:(adj.) merry
- downtorroddon
- (adj.) treated unfairly and crully, oppressed; SYN: mistreated; Ant: uplofed
- parch
- (v.) to make dry and thristy; to shrivel with heat;Syn:dry up;Ant: soak
- bystander
- (n.) one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part; Syn: observer;Ant: active
- accelerate
- (v.) to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about more quickly;Syn: step up;Ant: slow down