VOCAB WORDS 1
(adj.). suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn
What is apt?
(adj.) dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action to avoid disaster
What is dire?
(adj.) the greatest in strength or power; most common
What is predominant?
(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
What is chafe?
What is a synonym for dire?
(n.) a short club used as a weapon; (v.) to strike with a heavy club; to use force or strong arguments to gain some point
What is bludgeon?
(n.) something wonderful or marvelous; something monstrous or abnormal; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability or talent
What is prodigy?
(adj.. adv.). in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course
What is awry?
(adj., part) in bad humor, discontented, annoyed
What is disgruntled?
chief, major, paramount, prevalent
What is a synonym for predominant?
(n.) air, manner; appearance; expression
What is mien?
(adj.) related to the matter at hand, to the point
What is pertinent?
(adj.) having to do with punishment
What is penal?
(v.) to ward off, resist; to get along, manage
What is fend?
reputation, celebrity, prestige
What is a synonym for renown?
(adj.) charming, tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicious
(v.) to furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality
What is endow?
(n.) fame, glory
What is renown?
(n.) a person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world
What is recluse?
hold out, persist
What is an antonym for capitulate?
(v.) to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; to march in a single line or in columns. (n.) a narrow passage; gorge, canyon
What is defile?
(v.) to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel
What is capitulate?
(n.) freedom from punishment
What is impunity?
(v.) to advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass
What is encroach?
pleased, satisfied, content
What is an antonym for disgruntled?