Vocabulary
Terms
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- puny
- of less than normal strength or size
- melancholy
- sad, gloomy, unhappy
- canvass
- to go through an area in order to procure
- persist
- to continue steadily in a course of action
- gruesome
- horrible, revolting, ghastly
- parch
- to make dry and thirsty
- entice
- to attract, tempt
- bystander
- one who looks on or observes
- casual
- happening by chance or on an irregular basis
- flounder
- to trash about in a clumsy or ineffective way
- erode
- to wear away gradually, eat away
- quibble
- to envade or belittlle a point by twisting words or raising minor objection
- ordeal
- a difficult or painful experience
- vital
- having life, living
- ratify
- to approve, give formal approval to
- stifle
- to smother, prevent from breathing
- regal
- royal, kinglike; fit for a king
- accelerate
- speed up
- downtrodden
- treated unfairly and cruelly
- graphic
- lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts