vocab unit 9
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- vital
- having life, living; necessary to life, essential; key, crucial
- entice
- to attract, tempt
- 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
- gruesome
- horrible, revolting, ghastly
- parch
- to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat
- stifle
- to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off
- erode
- to wear away gradually, eat away
- flounder
- to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way
- downtrodden
- treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed
- bystander
- one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part
- casual
- happening by chance or an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal
- melancholy
- sad, gloomy, unhappy; sadness, gloominess
- puny
- of less than normal strength or size; of no importance
- ordeal
- a difficult or painful experience, a trial
- graphic
- lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts
- ratify
- to approve, give formal approval to, confirm
- persist
- to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain
- quibble
- to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection
- accelerate
- to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about more quickly