Vocabulary Workshop Unit Nine Practice

suitable, fitting, likely, quick to learn

• apt

• encroach

• endow

• fend

in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped for course

• bludgeon

• awry

• chafe

• disarming

a short club used as a weapon; to strike with a heavy club; to use force or strong arguments to gain some points

• defile

• disarming

• bludgeon

• chafe

to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel

• dire

• disgruntled

• endow

• capitulate

to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk; to strain or press against; a sore or injury caused by rubbing

• chafe

• dire

• fend

• defile

to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of, to march in a single line or columns, a narrow passage, gorge, canyone

• fend

• defile

• dire

• bludgeon

dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come, demanding immediate ation to avoid disaster

• defile

• fend

• dire

• chafe

charming, tending to get ride of unfriendliness or suspicion

• apt

• awry

• endow

• disarming

in bad humor, discontented, annoyed

• disgruntled

• awry

• capitulate

• fend

to advance beyond the usual or proper limites, trespass

• capitulate

• encroach

• fend

• disarming