Vocabulary

versatile

• able to do many things well

• a person who assists the enemy

• widespread, worldwide

retaliate

• to get worse

• to take revenge

• to make better

• a guilty feeling

vital

• necessary or essential to life

• to correct; make right

• a petty disagreement

• causing death

contemplate

• perfectly clean

• no longer in use

• to think about

• beautifully made

abscond

• hard to do; requiring effort

• to make right; correct

• to weigh down or burden

• to run off and hide

curtail

• to fight

• to suggest

• to cut short

• to pull away

docile

• teasing; playful conversation

• showing concern or care

• lacking social graces; tactless

• easy to teach or manage

ambition

• causing hatred or disgust

• a desire to succeed or be powerful

• a person without many goals

• considered important

obsolete

• to fascinate or hypnotize

• being exactly the same

• the state of doubt

• no longer in use

admonish

• reprimand someone firmly

• noisy and disorderly

• from another country

• to take revenge