Unit 8

a pledge; freedom from doubt, self-confidence

• liability

• assurance

• rabid

• flippant

an institution for the care of children, elderly people, etc.; a place of safety

• dilate

• immunity

• asylum

• pugnacious

to comfort; a keyboard of an organ; a control panel for an electrical or mechanical device

• assurance

• institute

• preposterous

• console

to make or become larger or wider; to expand upon

• dilate

• pugnacious

• flippant

• dwindle

refuse, waste products

• sparse

• dross

• warp

• rabid

to lessen, diminish

• sterling

• immunity

• dwindle

• realm

lacking in seriousness; disrespectful, saucy

• venture

• dwindle

• pugnacious

• flippant

resistance to disease; freedom from some charge or obligation

• immunity

• preposterous

• dross

• sterling

to establish, set up; organization that promotes learning

• realm

• institute

• liability

• pugnacious

a debt; something disadvantageous

• asylum

• remunerate

• liabilty

• sparse