Unit 1 Vocab

To become less intense, violent, or severe; to abate or diminish in intensity.

•  Attenuated

• Subsided

• Tamped

• Quivered

To tremble or shake with a slight, rapid motion; to vibrate or shiver.

• Tamped

• Cavorting

• Quivered

• Clad

Made thin or slender; weakened or reduced in force or intensity.

• Attenuated

• Tamped

• Silhouette

• Cavorting

A furnace or apparatus for burning waste materials to ashes.

• Incinerator

• Silhouette

• Clad

• Paranoia

To leap or dance about in a lively and playful manner; to frolic or caper.

• Subsided

• Emanations

• Clad

• Cavorting

An irrational or excessive fear of others plotting against oneself; a feeling of being constantly watched or persecuted.

• Clad

• Cavorting

• Paranoia

• Emanations

To pack or compress tightly by tapping or pounding; to consolidate or make firm.

• Clad

• Tamped

• Subsided

• Attenuated

The act of emitting or sending forth something, especially in the form of energy or radiation.

• Emanations

• Silhouette

• Cavorting

• Subsided

Clothed or dressed in a specific way.

• Tamped

• Clad

• Silhouette

• Incinerator

An outline or image of an object or person, usually black and without interior detail, against a brighter background.

• Paranoia

• Attenuated

• Clad

• Silhouette