DGDWL Chps 1-10 Vocab

making an all-out effort to win or succeed; competitive

• aggressive

• burgeoning

concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; fraud; cheating

• deceit

• defect

family; relationship

• kinship

• expendable

extremely simple or severe; bluntly or sternly plain

• cynic

• stark

a formal gesture of greeting made by women

• curtsey

• cliche

lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness

• nonchalance

• haphazard

to confuse, bewilder, or perplex

• blather

• baffle

to splash or throw water or liquid on; to extinguish

• festoon

• douse

to grow or develop quickly; flourish

• scurry(ies)

• burgeon(ing)

not essential; not worth preserving, able to be sacrificed

• defect(ed)

• expendable