Vocabulary Test 2 Review Definitions

a complaint, an annoyance

• grievance

• tyrant

• compact

• quarry

to hold back, to slow progress

• flounder

• hinder

• mitigate

• elude

undergoing difficulties, troubled

• untenanted

• turmoil

• unsurpassed

• beleaguered

to extend

• curtail

• hinder

• flounder

• prolong

immense, tremendous

• vast

• subtle

• subliminal

• futile

threatening, unfriendly

• grisly

• menacing

• affable

• inevitable

done in short bursts of speed or energy

• futile

• fitful

• spasmodic

• quizzical

careful, slow and cautious

• menacing

• futile

• adverse

• deliberate

difficult to determine or understand

• grim

• futile

• adverse

• inscrutable

tangible

• iridescent

• palpable

• untenanted

• resilient