Unit 9 Vocab
Terms
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- graphic
- lifelike, vivid, relating to pictorial arts
- gruesome
- horrible, revolting, ghastly
- bystander
- one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part
- entice
- to attract, tempt
- parch
- to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat
- ratify
- to approve, give formal approval to, confirm
- erode
- to wear away gradually, eat away
- downtrodden
- treated unfairly and cruely, oppressed
- regal
- royal, kinglike; fit for a king
- canvass
- to go through an area in order, to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go over in detail; to discuss
- puny
- of less than normal strength or size; of no importance
- persist
- to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- vital
- having life, living; necessary to life, essentail; key, crucail
- quibble
- to evade or belittle apoint by twisting words or raising minorobjections; a petty objection
- melancholy
- sad, gloomy, unhappy; saddness,gloominess
- accelerate
- to speed up, cause to move faster, to bring about more quikley
- ordeal
- a dificult or painful experience, a trail
- casual
- happening by chance or on a irregular basis; showing little concern; informal
- stifle
- to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off
- flounder
- to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffetive way