Vocabulary 4

Custom

• a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

• willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

• special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.

• forcibly put an end to.

Witness

• a person who takes part in something.

• a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

• sully, mar, or spoil.

• completely baffling; very puzzling.

Cruel

• special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.

• forcibly put an end to.

• inducing cruelty, violence, or insensitivity to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence.

• willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Participant

• sully, mar, or spoil.

• completely baffling; very puzzling.

• a person who takes part in something.

• split apart.

Jargon

• forcibly put an end to.

• special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.

• inducing cruelty, violence, or insensitivity to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence.

• a despicable or contemptible person, an unfortunate or unhappy person.

Defiled

• sully, mar, or spoil.

• a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

• an unfortunate or unhappy person.

• split apart.

Suppress

• inducing cruelty, violence, or insensitivity to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence.

• forcibly put an end to.

• a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

• willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Perplexing

• split apart.

• the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

• a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

• completely baffling; very puzzling.

Brutalizing

• an unfortunate or unhappy person.

• inducing cruelty, violence, or insensitivity to the pain of others by repeated exposure to violence.

• a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

• willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.

Sunder

• split apart.

• the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

• a person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

• a person who takes part in something.