vocabulary 9

20 cards·by saiama

accelerate

speed up

bystander

one who looks on or observes

canvass

to go through an area in order to procure votes

casual

offhand

downtrodden

treatly unfairly and cruelly

entice

to attract

erode

to wear away gradually

flounder

to trash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

graphic

lifelike

gruesome

horrible

melancholy

sad

ordeal

a trial

parch

to make dry, thirsty

persist

to last

puny

weak

quibble

to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor

ratify

to approve

regal

royal

stifle

to smother

vital

having life