Vocabulary Unit 13 and Reading Review

to evade or escape,

usually in a skillful

or cunning way

• allude

• elude

• commentary

• abundant

plentiful; available in

large quantities

• shortage

• abundant

• commentary

• conserve

to keep under control

or within limits; to

hold back

• abundant

• commentary

• terminate

• restrain

feeling, showing, or

involving a hopeless

sense that a situation is

impossible to deal with

• desperate

• conserve

• terminate

• unanimous

fully in agreement

• argument

• unanimous

• drastic

• trait

likely to have a strong

or far-reaching effect;

radical and extreme

• drastic

• desperate

• unanimous

• restrain

a genetic or learned

characteristic or

condition

• drastic

• commentary

• disease

• trait

an expression of

opinion or explanation

• assertion

• evidence

• commentary

• unanimous

to bring to an end

• commence

• terminate

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• abundant

to protect from harm or

destruction, especially

something environmentally

or culturally important

• conserve

• terminate

• restrain

• elude