Lesson 2 vocabulary

Full of twist, turns, or bends (not object nor body)

• Adversity

• Tortuous

• Retort

• Distort

1. Fortune or fate

2. Condition marked by misfortune calamity or distress

• Adversity

• Retort

• Introvert

• Avert

1. To turn away or aside

2. To ward off

• Introvert

• Subvert

• Subservient

• Avert

1. Shy person

2. A person characterized by concern primarily with his or hers own feelings or thoughts

• Introvert

• Subvert

• Contort

• Subservient

1. To overthrow

2. To cause the downfall, ruin

• Prose

• Subvert

• Contort

• Subservient

To reply quickly and sharply

 

• Retort

• Prose

• Contort

• Subservient

To change something to make it false

 

• Contort

• Distort

• Retort

• Prose

Excessively willing to yield

• Subservient

• Contort

• Prose

• Distot

To twist or bend out of shape

 (Body or object)

• Subservient

• Distort

• Prose

• Contort

Ordinary speech; not poetry

• Contort

• Distort

• Prose

• Subservient