vocab 9
Terms
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- erode
- to wear away; to eat away
- casual
- natural and unstudied
- ratify
- approve formally; confirm; verify
- gruesome
- 1. horrible, revolting, ghastly
- quibble
- evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
- downtrodden
- 1. treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed
- parch
- 1. to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat
- bystander
- 1. one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part
- stifle
- 1. to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off
- graphic
- 1. lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts
- persist
- 1. to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- accelerate
- v. make move faster or happen earlier; increase the speed of
- canvass
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- flounder
- 1. to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way
- puny
- less of normal strength or size
- melancholy
- gloomy; morose; blue; N. ADJ. melancholic; CF. melancholia
- vital
- 1. having life, living; necessary to life, essential; key, crucial
- ordeal
- 1. a difficult or painful experience, a trial
- regal
- 1. royal, kinglike; fit for a king
- entice
- 1. to attract, tempt