VW - Chapter 8
Terms
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- (n.) a large-scale disaster, misfortune, or failure
- catastrophe
- (adj.) not usual, strange
- abnormal
- (v.) to drive or throw out, evict
- eject
- (adj.) clear, easily read, decipherable
- legible
- (v.) to grow, thrive, be prosperous
- flourish
- (v.) to become or make less
- decrease
- (v.) to turn bottom side up, upset
- capsize
- (adj.) inclined to argue or debate
- disputatious
- (adj.) disobedient, rebellious, defiant
- insubordinate
- (n.) something that stimulates action
- incentive
- (v.) to turn aside sharply
- swerve
- (v.) to get ahead of, do better than, exceed
- outstrip
- (n.) a small part remaining behind
- remnant
- (n.) a violent attack; a sudden rush of something
- onslaught
- (n.) the central point or heart of a matter; a knob
- nub
- (adj.) happening or existing at the same time
- simultaneous
- (v.) to spread throughout
- pervade
- (v.) to establish by law; to order or command; to appoint as a priest or minister
- ordain
- (adj.) careful, wary, judicious
- prudent
- (v.) to put out, extinguish; douse, stifle, slake
- quench