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AdvEng Vocab Unit14
AdvEng Vocab14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to leave; to desert | abandon |
| misfortune; hardship | adversity |
| disaster; casastrophe | calamity |
| imperfect; damage | defective |
| to lower in character, quality, or value | degrade |
| ruinous; devastating | disastrous |
| uselessness; ineffectivness | futility |
| a complaint | grievance |
| not suited or favorable to one's comfort or purpose | inconvenient |
| to annoy; to bother | irritate |
| danger; peril | jeopardy |
| disease; disorder | malady |
| to fail to perform | malfunction |
| to subdue; to defeat | overpower |
| wild commotion with a confusion of noise; uproar | pandemonium |
| a feeling of pity or sorrow | pathos |
| to die | perish |
| a difficult or troublesome situation | perdicament |
| to void by taking back or reversing; to cancel | revoke |
| the tendancy to become angry or irritable | temper |