Vocab Lesson 9

Optomist

• always look on the bright side

• focus on the negative

spontaneous

• forced, planned, and acting

• natural, genuine and uncontrolled

topical

• current events; events of the day

• out of date; no longer relevant

abstract

• solid, concrete

• vague, general

renegade

• rule follower

• rule breaker

unscathed

• harmed, injured

• unhurt, safe

dwindle

• increase, grow

• reduce, shrink, decrease

throng

• an individual, a couple

• crowd, mob

portly

• large, fat, stout

• small, thin, slim

barren

• fertile, forest

• infertile, arid, desert