Unit 9 Word Scramble
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accelerate | to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about move quickly step up, quicken, hasten slow down, retard, decelerate |
bystander | one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part observer, spectator, onlooker active participant |
canvass | to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go over in detail; to discuss poll, survey, solicit |
casual | happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal accidental, haphazard, offhand formal, serious, premeditated, intentional |
downtrodden | treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed mistreated, ground underfoot uplifted, liberated |
entice | to attract, tempt lure, beguile nauseate, sicken, revolt, repel |
erode | to wear away gradually, eat away corrode, abrade nurture, promote, encourage |
flounder | to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way wallow, struggle |
graphic | lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts lively, colorful, descriptive dull, boring, unrealistic, colorless |
gruesome | horrible, revolting, ghastly gory, hideous, grisly pleasant, delightful, appealing |
melancholy | sad, gloomy, unhappy; sadness, gloominess depressed, dejected; dejection, depression merry, happy, cheerful; joy, elation |
ordeal | a difficult or painful experience, a trial test, hardship pleasure, cinch |
parch | to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat dry p, dehydrate, desiccate soak, drench, saturate, waterlog |
persist | to continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed; to last, remain persevere, keep at it, endure give up, discontinue |
puny | of less than normal strength or size; of no importance undersized, pint-size, small, weak robust, brawny, mammoth, gigantic |
quibble | to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection nitpick, split hairs, cavil, squabble |
ratify | to approve, give formal approval to, confirm endorse, sanction, uphold cancel, repeal, annul, veto |
regal | royal, kinglike; fit for a king majestic, stately, princely, august lowly, humble, abject, servile |
stifle | to smother, prevent from breathing; to hold back or choke off strangle, suppress, snuff nurture, promote, encourage |
vital | having life, living; necessary to life, essential; key, crucial indispensable, fundamental nonessential, unnecessary |
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