Unit 8 Vocabulary

not usual, not typical, strange

• abnormal

• disputatious

• insubordinate

• flourish

easily read

• legible

• insubordinate

• prudent

• abnormal

 

Synonym of the boldface word – had to appoint a minister

• outstrip

• ordain

• flourish

disobedient, rebellious

• abnormal

• disputatious

• prudent

• insubordinate

a reason for doing something; something that stimulates action

• incentive

• nub

• flourish

• onslaught

to grow, thrive, to be prosperous, to wave in the air

a dramatic gesture; a fanfare of horns

• capsize

• ordain

• catastrophe

• flourish

The possibility of getting a summer job in the office is all the _______, I need to improve my computer skills.

• incentive

• onslaught

inclined to argue or debate

• disputatious

• abnormal

• insubordinate

• legible

The train and the car approached the crossing almost ________ and a terrible accident seemed unavoidable.

• simultaneously

• prudently

the central point or heart of the matter; a knob

• onslaught

• catastrophe

• nub

• flourish