Chapter 20 Vocabulary 8th Grade

The word ATROPHY means

• to make something weak
• to tighten something
• to solve with science
• to make smaller

Synonym for deterioration, degeneration

• noxious
• unscathed
• atrophy
• salubrious

Polio affected Rudolph's ability to walk. Muscles that aren't used ____, and this makes a bad situation worse.

• pestilent
• atrophy
• debilitate
• prostrate

Choose the correct definition!
atrophy 

• weaken
• reward
• expand
• strengthen 

deplore

• command
• disapprove of
• encourage
• prevent 

deprivation 

• a deficiency
• an elation
• proud
• lacking standards 

exacerbate

• make worse
• remove
• bring closer
• strengthen  

panacea

• cure all
• state of uncertainty
• reward
• false medicine 

imperative

• thougthful
• more harmful than at first evident
• likely
• necessary 

mitigate

• make worse
• make less severe
• remove
• hide