Lesson 10 Vocabulary (8th)

to bring about or inflict; to express or vent

• languish

• dire

• atrocity

• wreak

a retaliation for an injury

• reprisal

• flagrant

• dire

• advocate

to soften or tone down the sound of; not speaking or not able to speak

• enhance

• dire

• mute

• abject

clearly offensive or bad, conspicuously acting against what is right

• atrocity

• dire

• turmoil

• flagrant

a group that enjoys superior status to tohers

• enhance

• elite

• advocate

• wreak

a form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary

• dialect

• advocate

• mute

• reprisal

to plead in favor of ; to defend

• abject

• advocate

• enhance

• raze

a state of confusion or agitation; tumult

• raze

• atrocity

• abject

• turmoil

to level to the ground; to destroy completely

• raze

• languish

• wreak

• dire

to lose hope, strength, or vitality because of neglect or bad conditions

• languish

• dire

• abject

• commemorate