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unit 8 vocab JR
uit 8 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abut | to join at one end or next to; to support, prop up |
| attire | clothes apparel; to ress or adorn |
| avail | to be of se or benefit to; to make use of, use, benefit, or value |
| crony | a very close friend, pal, or chum |
| cryptic | puzzling or mystifying |
| divergent | going in different directions; differing from each other; departing from convention; deviant |
| enmity | hatred, illwill |
| fervent | very earnest, emotonal, passionate; extremely hot |
| gaunt | thin and bony, starved lookng; bare, barren |
| infiltrate | to pass through or gain entrance to radually or stealthily |
| nullify | to make of no value or conseqence, cancel, wipe out |
| perceptible | capable of being grased by the senses or mind |
| plummet | to plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line |
| proclaim | to declare publicly or officially |
| proxy | an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in anothers place |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or btteness |
| scavenger | a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on rfuse or dead bodies |
| stint | to limit, be sparing or frugal; a limit or restriction a fixed share of work or duty, a period of activity |
| stoial | self-contrlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain |
| unflagging | tireless, continuing with vigor |