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