Unit 9 vocabulary review

Erode:

• to wear away gradually, eat away

• o thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts

• horrible, revolting, ghastly.

royal, kinglike; fit for a king

• Puny

• Ratify

• Graphic

• Regal

to approve, give formal approval to

• Gruesome

• Ratify

• Parch

• Persist

Flounder

• of less than normal strength or size

• o thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• horrible, revolting, ghastly

• to evade or belittle a point by twisting words

Quibble

• to approve, give formal approval to

• sad, gloomy, unhappy

• to evade or belittle a point by twisting words

• a difficult or painful experience, a trial

lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts.

• Graphic

• Melancholy

• Puny

• Gruesome

horrible, revolting, ghastly

• Graphic

• Ratify

• Persist

• Gruesome

Puny

• a difficult or painful experience, a trial

• to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat.

• of less than normal strength or size

• sad, gloomy, unhappy

to continue steadily in a course of action

• Parch

• Persist

• Ordeal

• Puny

to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat

• Quibble

• Parch

• Ordeal

• Erode