Vocan Unit 9
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- Stifle
- to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off
- Accelerate
- to speed up, cause to move faster, to bring about more quickly
- Bystander
- one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part
- Persist
- to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- Ratify
- to approve, give formal approval to, confirm
- Graphic
- lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts
- Downtrodden
- treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed
- Parch
- to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat
- Regal
- royal, kinglike; fit for a king
- Puny
- of less than normal strength or size; of no importance
- Gruesome
- horrible, revolting, ghastly
- Quibble
- to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection
- Ordeal
- a difficult or painful expirience, a trial
- Canvass
- to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go through in detail
- Melancholy
- sad, gloomy, unhappy
- Erode
- to wear away gradually, eat away
- Casual
- happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern
- Flounder
- to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way
- Entice
- to attract; temp
- Vital
- having life, living; necessary to life, essential, key, crucial