Unit 8 Vocabulary Review

What does it mean to endeavor?

• To intensify something

• To try hard to achieve something

• To look after oneself without help

• To easily believe something

What does it mean to enhance?

• Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality

• To look after oneself without help

• To try hard to achieve something

• To easily believe something

What does it mean to fend?

• To intensify something

• To try hard to achieve something

• To look after oneself without help

• To easily believe something

What does it mean to be gullible?

• To easily believe something

• To try hard to achieve something

• To look after oneself without help

• To intensify something

What does it mean to be humane?

• To intensify something

• To easily believe something

• To show compassion

• To look after oneself without help

What does it mean to instill?

• Full of light; bright or shining, especially in the dark

• Make partial or minor changes to something in order to

  improve it

• Seeming reasonable or probable

• Gradually but firmly establish an idea in a person’s mind

What does it mean to be luminous?

• Full of light; bright or shining, especially in the dark

• Make partial or minor changes to something in order to

  improve it

• Occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• Seeming reasonable or probable

What does it mean to modify something?

• Full of light; bright or shining, especially in the dark

• Make partial or minor changes to something in order to

  improve it

• Occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• Scattered or isolated

What does it mean to be plausible?

• Make partial or minor changes to something in order to

  improve it

• Occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• Seeming reasonable or probable

• Scattered or isolated

What does it mean to recur?

• Occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• Scattered or isolated

• Change from one state or condition to another

• Arrest someone for a crime