Vocabulary Practice (8th)

To get worse or fall apart as time passes.

• Faction

• Embroil

• Deteriorate

To discourage or frighten

• Flee

• Inadequate

• Daunting

you're involved in a complicated situation that is hard to get out of.

• Daunting

• Embroil

• Relish

a group within a larger group with different ideas and opinions than those of the rest of the group.

• Refugee

• Landmark

• Faction

people devoted to improving the lives of others. They donate money or offer a service to help solve problems like poverty, disease, and hunger.

• Humanitarian

• Persecute

• Residents

to treat them cruelly and unfairly, especially because of their ideas, race, religion, or political beliefs.

• Famine

• Persecute

• Relish

to cause to move with a sudden jerky motion

• Perilous

• Rubble

• Jolted

something said or done that shows disagreement or disapproval of something

• Protests

• Inadequate

• Famine

broken bits and pieces from a fallen building

• Rubble

• Arduous

• Integrate

dangerous or difficult to deal with

• Resettle

• Treacherous

• Durable