Quarter Four 9th Grade ELA Vocab

dangerously high or steep.

• Haughty

• Precipitous

• Foe

• Succor

accept something reluctantly but without protest.

• Adversary

• Ambiguities

• Ambush

• Acquiesced

a person who marauds; a raider.

• Retorted

• Digress

• Marauders

• Interlopers

a feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.

• Exasperation

• Loathsome

• Boisterous

• Enmity

devoutly religious.

• Disparagement

• Pious

• Haughty

• Valiant

a long or arduous search for something.

• Adversary

• Wayward

• Quest

• Mutiny

cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.

• Pernicious

• Languor

• Detest

• Embitter

a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position.

• Ambush

• Disposition

• Fickle

• Conjur

try hard to do or achieve something.

• Pensive

• Endeavor

• Dismal

• Remnants

say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner.

• Beseech

• Retorted

• Acquiesced

• Wayward