Unit 8A Vocabulary Definitions

(v.) to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

• abut

• nullify

• plummet

• crony

(adj.) self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

• stoical

• scavenger

• divergent

• crony

(n.) clothes, apparel, garb; (v.) to dress, adorn, or bedeck

• attire

• rankle

• gaunt

• divergent

(n.) a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies

• scavenger

• crony

• gaunt

• nullify

(n.) a very close friend, chum, buddy

• crony

• rankle

• abut

• stoical

(v.) to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness (with the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time)

• rankle

• abut

• attire

• crony

(adj.) going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention; deviant

• divergent

• plummet

• abut

• attire

(v.) to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line

• plummet

• rankle

• attire

• divergent

(adj.) thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren

• gaunt

• crony

• divergent

• stoical

(v.) to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

• nullify

• crony

• rankle

• scavenger