vocab9

words/def

20 cards·by kiefferm@rv337.org

accelerate

to speed up cause to move faster

bystander

one who looks on or observes

canvass

to go through an area in order to procure votes sales or opinion

casual

happening by chance or on an irregular

downtrodden

treated unfairly and cruelly oppressed

entice

to attract

erode

to wear away gradually

flounder

to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective away

graphic

life like vivid

gruesome

horrible revolting ghastly

melancholy

sad gloomy unhappy

ordeal

a difficult or painful experience

parch

to make dry and thirsty

persist

to continue steadily in a course or action refuse to stop or be change to last remain

puny

of less then normal strength or size

quibble

to evade or be little a point by twisting words or raising minor objections

ratify

to approve give formal approval

regal

royal king like

stifle

to smother prevent from breathing

vital

having life living necessary to life