Unit 9 Vocabulary

to strike with a heavy club

• bludgeon

• fend

• renown

• dire

something wonderful or marvelous

• capitulate

• chafe

• prodigy

• recluse

At eighteen, Mark decided to__________________ for himself; he found a job, rented his own apartment, and signed up for college courses in the evening.

• fend

• disgruntled

• awry

• apt

“You’re on my side of the line!” her brother shouted, referring to the imaginary line dividing the car’s back seat, as if she had seriously __________________upon his territory.

• mien

• penal

• predominant

• encroached

fame, glory

• impunity

• renown

• pertinent

• disarming

charming, tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion

• disarming

• awry

• disgruntled

• apt

Her parents and grandparents are all well-known artists; she, too, is _____________with the artistic talent that runs in her family.

• bludgeon

• fend

• endowed

• prodigy

The island is a(n) __________________facility, serving as holding quarters for convicts heading for prison.

• mien

• impunity

• penal

• pertinent

to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of

• defile

• capitulate

• bludgeon

• dire

displeased, grumpy, surly

• apt

• chafe

• dire

• disgruntled