Vocabulary Chapter 6

to authorize, allow, or approve

• sanction

• inundate

• circumvent

• reticent

to cover, as if by flooding; overwhelm with a large number or amount

• inundate

• circumvent

• reticent

• robust

to avoid by going around or as if by going around; to escape from, prevent, or stop through cleverness

• circumvent

• reticent

• robust

• cohesive

Quiet or uncommunicative; reluctant to speak out

• reticent

• robust

• cohesive

• vociferous

Healthy and strong; vigorous

• robust

• cohesive

• vociferous

• attrition

sticking or holding together; unified

• cohesive

• vociferous

• attrition

• grievous

noisy; expressing feelings loudly and intensely

• vociferous

• attrition

• grievous

• oblivious

a gradual natural decrease in number; becoming fewer in number

• attrition

• grievous

• oblivious

• sanction

causing grief or pain; very serious or severe

• grievous

• oblivious

• sanction

• inundate

unaware; failing to notice

• oblivious

• sanction

• inundate

• circumvent