Unbroken Vocab Part 2

Define: atoll

• an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon

• physical or mental effort

• bending readily; easily influenced

• very steeply

Define: flounder

• capable of floating; cheerful

• to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• paved surfaces having holes or pits

• to strip bare

Define: coltish

• a lever or pillar used to control the movements of an airplane

• dullness; monotony; boredom

• to form a theory or guess without hard evidence

• energetic; playful but awkward

A (a)   is a large number of people gathered together; a crowd.

• throng
• yoke
• tedium
• glimmer

Define: embargo

• bending readily; easily influenced

• capable of floating; cheerful

• an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country

• physical or mental effort

emptied; drained; used up is the definition of ______

Define: contingency

• a possible future event that must be prepared for or guarded against; possibility

• dim or unsteady light

• a person's general mood; tendency

• to dip or jolt from side-to-side

Match the following

• precipitously

• physical or mental effort

• plaintive

• very steeply

• pliant

• bending readily; easily influenced

• exertion

• paved surfaces having holes or pits

• pocked

• expressing sorrow or sadness

Define: speculate

• a large number

• to form a theory or guess about something without hard evidence

• dullness; monotony; boredom

• a large number of people gathered together; a crowd

Define: yoke

• to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• to strip bare

• a crowd

• a lever used to control the movements of an aircraft