Vocab Unit 8

Affluence(n.)

• wealth/riches

• poor ness/poverty

• life

• death

arears(n. pl)

• debt

• unpaid

• late

• early

cringe(v.)

• to shrink back

• to be satisfied

• to love with greatness

• to dislike in such a way that you scrunch up your face

cascade(n., v.)

• steep, narrow downfall

• laundry detergent

• option 3

crotchety(adj.)

• cranky/untempered

• happy

• full of odd whims

• grateful

immobile(adj.)

• not movable

• movable

• not moving

• moving

impassible(adj.)

• not able to pass

• able to pass

• “Brick wall”

innovation(n.)

• a change

• no change

• new wrinkle

• opposite of innovation

jovial(agh.)

• poor-humored

• unhappy

• gloomy

• good-humored

manacle (n. usually pl.)

• handcuffs

• tree

• toilet

• clock