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unit 9 eng. vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apt | suitable fitting likely quick to learn |
| awry | in a turned or twisted position or direction wrong out of the right or hoped for corse |
| bludgeon | a short club used as a weapon to strike with a heavy club to use force or strong arguments to gain some point |
| capitulate | to end resistence give up surrender |
| chafe | to warm by rubbing to wear sore by rubbing to feel annoyance of dissatification annoy irk to strain or press against a sore or injury caused by rubbing |
| defile | to make unclean or dirty destroy the purity of to march in a single line or in columns a narrow passage |
| dire | dreadful causing fear or suffering warning of trouble to come demanding immediate action to avoid disaster |
| disarming | charming tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion |
| disgrunted | in bad humor discontented annoyed |
| encroach | to advance beyond the usual or proper limits trespass |
| endow | to furnish equip provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality |
| fend | to ward off resist ton get along manage |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |
| mien | air manner apperance expression |
| penal | having to do with punishment |
| pertinent | related to the matter at hand to the point |
| predomiant | the greatest in strength or power most common |
| prodigy | something wonderful or marvelous something monstrous or abnormal an unusak feat a child or young person with extrondinary ability or talent |
| recluse | a person who leads a life shut up or withdrwan from the world |
| reown | fame glory |