Vocab Workshop Unit 9 Grade 7

of less than normal strength or size

• stifle

• regal

• puny

• vital

to approve, give formal approval to, confirm

• ratify

• regal

• casual

• accelerate

to make dry and thirsty; to shrivel with heat

• parch

• downtrodden

• ordeal

• flounder

to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales or opinions

• canvass

• graphic

• flounder

• entice

happening by chance or on an irregular basis

informal

• graphic

• casual

• parch

• ordeal

lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial arts

• bystander

• graphic

• downtrodden

• melancholy

to continue steadily in a course of action,

refuse to stop or be changed

• ordeal

• entice

• vital

• persist

having life, living; necessary to life, essential

• vitamin

• vital

• regal

• puny

to smother, prevent from breathing;

to hold back or choke off

• regal

• puny

• stifle

• gruesome

to attract, tempt

• casual

• accelerate

• bystander

• entice