Vocab Unit 9 🌠Flashcards
Apt
Appropriate
Bludgeon
A short heavy club
Endow
To furnish
Mien
Appearance or look
Impunity
Freedom form punishment, loss or harm
Penal
Of or relating to or prescribing punishment , as for breaking the law
Pertinent
Relating to the matter at hand
Capitulate
To surrender or give up
Fend
To make an effort to resist
Cynical
Believing that people act only out of selfish moves
Poignant
Deeply moving
Acrid
Sharp
Terse
Concise
Respite
A break
Prodigy
A exceptionally talented child
Awry
Twisted or turned to one side
Disarming
Tending to remove suspicion or hostility
Dire
Causing or involving great fear or suffering
Obscure
Difficult to understand
Boorish
ill-mannered
Lance
Spear,Spike
Heresy
Against orthodox opinions
Chafe
Soreness or irritation caused by rubbing
Encroach
To trespass
Disgruntled
Grumpy and dissatisfied
Defile
A narrow passage between mountains
Predominant
Superior in power
Recluse
A person who lives in seclusion or apart form a society
Renown
Widespread fame or glory
Epistle
A letter (as in a document)