Lesson 21 Vocabulary

Match the following

• desirable

• having good or pleasing qualities; worth having or getting

• reversible

• able to be changed back to an earlier state or original state; having two sides

• visible

• easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, or emotionally; open to attack, harm, or damage

• vulnerable

• able to be seen; easily seen or understood; known to or noticed by the public

• flexible

• capable of bending or being bent; easily changed; willing to change or try different things

Match the following

• progressive

• moving forward; using or interested in new or modern ideas

• degrade

• moving or changing in small amounts; happening in a slow way over a long period of time

• gradual

• to return to an earlier and usually worse or less-developed condition or state

• graduate

• to treat something or someone poorly and without respect; to make the quality of something worse

• regress

• to earn a degree or diploma from a school, college, or university; to move from one level to a higher level

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degrade

• build up

• put down

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gradual

• slowly

• all at once

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graduate

• demote

• accomplish

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progressive

• modern

• antiquated

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regress

• improve

• deteriorate

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desirable

• enticing

• harmful

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vulnerable

• guarded

• sensitive

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visible

• ambiguous

• obvious