Vocabulary Workshop Level D Unit 8

(n.) a pledge; freedom from doubt, self confidence

• assurance

• asylum

• console

• dilate

(n) an institution for the care of children, elderly people, a place of safety

• assurance

• asylum

• console

• dilate

(v.) to comfort; (n.) the keyboard of an organ; a control panel for an electrical or mechanical device

• assurance

• asylum

• console

• dilate

(v.) to make or become larger or wider; to expand upon

• assurance

• asylum

• console

• dilate

(n.) refuse, waste products

• dross

• dwindle

• flippant

• immunity

(v.) to lessen, diminish

• dross

• dwindle

• flippant

• immunity

(adj.) lacking in seriousness, disrespectful, saucy

• dross

• dwindle

• flippant

• immunity

(n.) resistance to disease; freedom from some charge or obligation

• dross

• dwindle

• flippant

• immunity

(v.) to establish, set up (n.) organization that promotes learning

• institute

• liability

• preposterous

• rabid

(n.) a debt; something disadvantageous

• institute

• liability

• preposterous

• rabid