click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Vocabulary 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apt | (adj)Suitable, fitting, likely; quick to lean. |
| Awry | (adj,adv)In a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course. |
| Bludgeon | (n)A short club used as a weapon; (v)To strike with a heavy club; to use force of strong arguments to gain some point. |
| Capitulate | (v)To end resistance, give up, surrender. |
| Chafe | (v)To warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk; to strain or press against;(n)A sore or injury caused by rubbing. |
| Defile | (v, trans)To make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of;(v, intrans)To march in a single line or in columns;(n)A narrow passage. |
| Dire | (adj)Dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come demanding immediate action to avoid disaster. |
| Disarming | (adj)Charming, tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion. |
| Disgruntled | (part, adj)In bad humor, discontented, annoyed. |
| Encroach | (v)To advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass. |
| Endow | (v)To furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality. |
| Fend | (v)To ward off, resist;to get along, manage. |
| Impunity | (n)Freedom from punishment. |
| Mien | (n)Air, manner; appearance, expression. |
| Penal | (adj)Having to do with punishment. |
| Pertinent | (adj)Related to the matter at hand, to the point. |
| Predominant | (adj)The greatest in strength or power; most common. |
| Prodigy | (n)Something wonderful or marvelous; something monstrous or abnormal; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability or talent. |
| Recluse | (n)A person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world. |
| Renown | (n)Fame, glory. |