Vocab Level C Unit 9: Definitions, Synonyms, Antonyms

to ward off, resist; to get along, manage

• fend

• chafe

• awry

• dire

suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

• capitulate

• defile

• dire

• apt

to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk

• disarming

• bludgeon

• chafe

• disgruntled

to end resistance; give up, throw in the towel

• capitulate

• awry

• encroach

• prodigy

fame, glory

• penal

• renown

• impunity

• mien

in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course

• dire

• pertinent

• awry

• renown

to make unclean or or dirty, destroy the purity of; to march in a single line or in columns; a narrow passage; gorge, canyon

• chafe

• defile

• awry

• fend

to furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality.

• dire

• mien

• endow

• renown

a short club used as a weapon; to strike with a heavy club

• bludgeon

• encroach

• dire

• mien

freedom from punishment

• recluse

• impunity

• predominant

• prodigy