Vocabulary Workshop Level B Unit 9

Define accelerate

• To speed up

• To attract, tempt

• To make dry and thirsty

• To wear away gradually

One who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part

• ordeal

• Entice

• Vital

• Bystander

canvass

• Happening by chance or on an irregular basis

• To go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions

• A difficult or painful experience

• Horrible, revolting, ghastly

define casual

• One who looks or observes

• Royal, kinglike

• Happening by chance or on an irregular basis

• To thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

Downtrodden is being treated unfairly and cruelly

• True

• False

All these means entice except

• To attract

• lure

• Hardship

• Lead on

Erode

• To wear away gradually

• To smother

• Have life, living

• To approve, give formal approval to

Flounder

• A trial

• To shrivel with heat

• To thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• To evade or belittle a point by twisting words

Colorful is a synonym of graphic

• True

• False

horrible, revolting, ghastly

• ordeal

• Gruesome

• Persist

• Puny