Grade 7 Vocabulary Workshop Level B Unit 9 Mrs. Smith

to speed up, cause to move faster, to bring about more quickly

• accelerate

• parch

• gruesome

• melancholy

one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part

• bystander

• entice

• graphic

• downtrodden

to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions

• canvass

• erode

• casual

• ordeal

happening by chance or on an irregular basis

• casual

• regal

• vital

• persist

treated unfairly or cruelly, oppressed

• downtrodden

• Mrs. Smith

• melancholy

• accelerate

to attract, tempt

• entice

• ratify

• puny

• vital

to wear away gradually, eat away

• erode

• flounder

• carp

• trout

to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• flounder

• Rick's place on Friday

• downtrodden

• accelerate

lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial ads

• gruesome

• graphic

• grand

• grotesque

horrible, revolting, ghastly

• gruesome

• ordeal

• casual

• accelerate