Vocabulary Workshop C/7-9

The acme of my career

• low point 
• commencement
• highest point
• nadir

endowed a library

• visited
• joined
• worked in 
• funded

an exotic setting

• drab
• pleasant
• colorful
• unusual

pronounced her a prodigy

• failure
• marvel
• victim
• cheat

a haggard expression  

• angry
• careworn
• happy
• comical

a gaunt prisoner

• escaped
• starved
• doomed
• chained

apt to bite

• unlikely
• liable
• difficult 
• certain

menial tasks

• lowly
• rewarding
• complicated
• simple

Synonym:  jaunty

• ancient
• young
• lively  
• heavy

Synonym:  wallow

• roll about
• look around
• read over
• go outside