English 9 Lesson 12

sufficient to be noticed or measured

• appreciable

• autocratic

• brawny

• concerted

sly, shrewd, cunning, clever, tricky, foxy

• synthetic

• temperate

• venomous

• wily

to fight, struggle, to compete, to ague

• blanch

• contend

• maltreat

• ponder

to abuse, use roughly or crudely, mistreat

• blanch

• contend

• maltreat

• ponder

bending easily, limber, supple, flexible

• intolerable

• irreverent

• laborious

• lithe

planned or performed in cooperation with others

• autocratic

• brawny

• concerted

• humane

absolute in power or authority

• appreciable

• autocratic

• brawny

• concerted

poisonous, spiteful, mean

• venomous

• wily

• appreciable

• autocratic

not easy, requiring hard work, arduous, strenuous

• irreverent

• laborious

• lithe

• subversive

mild, moderate, balanced

• lithe

• subversive

• synthetic

• temperate