Unit 9 Vocabulary

(adj) Suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

SYN: appropriate, fit, liable

• Apt

• Chafe

• Disarming

• Awry

(adj, adv) in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

SYN: crooked, askew, amiss

• Awry

• Disgruntled

• Encroach

• Capitulate

(n) a short club used as a weapon; (v) to strike with a heavy club to use force or strong arguments to gain some point

SYN: cudgel; (v) clobber, clout

• Bludgeon

• Awry

• Defile

• Chafe

(v) to end resistance, give up, throw in the towel

(v) to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk; to strain or press against; (n) a sore or injury caused by rubbing

SYN: irritate, scrape, abrade

• Chafe

• Awry

• Bludgeon

• Disgruntled

(v) to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; to march in a single line or in columns; (n) a narrow passage; gorge, canyon